For years, wiseacres have been warning people to distrust their hearts and use their heads. Last week in Illinois, 50 topflight psychiatrists, psychologists, anthropologists and physiologists hedged considerably. Said they: if you don't listen to your emotions, too, your intellect may get you into trouble.
The convening scientists* were particularly interested in man's "adjustive struggle." Said Chicago Psychologist Samuel J. Beck: "The presumably all-intellectual, nonemotional, strictly realistic attitudethat attitude traditionally so hallowed in scienceis not useful equipment in the adjustive struggle."
Those pioneers and leaders of the "Age of Enlightenment,"Galileo, Descartes,...
