Medicine: Stop, Look & Love

A man inherits the color of his eyes, say scientists, through the little heredity-carriers called genes. Leopold Szondi, a lively 65-year-old Hungarian psychiatrist, goes much farther than that. He believes that the genes also control the kind of subconscious mind a person has, and what is in it.

The all-important genes, Szondi says, determine people's lives & loves. In the field of romance, like attracts likeĀ—to disaster. Lovers with bad mental and emotional characteristics, caused by "sick" genes, should avoid marrying people with the same type of bad genes. An apparently healthy man with a schizophrenic grandmother, Szondi claims, is likely to...

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