Medicine: Id-Bits

Outstanding among the Freudian insights into human problems presented at last week's annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association:

¶ Some people in all age groups like to set fires, but for different reasons, said the University of Southern California's Psychiatrist Stanley J. Geller. He concentrated on preadolescents (six to eleven), found that his 75 subjects were all boys. (The only female firebug he found was a girl of 14.) "Without fail," said Dr. Geller, "the marital relationship of the parents was unstable or really nonexistent. In 77% of the cases the real fathers...

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