Savant Says Independence In U.S. Keeps Down Insanity
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12 — (AP)—Dr. Alfred Adler, Vienna psychologist and one-time associate of Freud, believes American independence and efficiency will keep insanity down in this country.
The world-renowned savant expressed this opinion last night in an address here.
Americans want to do things themselves, and still react to the pioneer instincts of their forebears, said Dr. Adler. Europeans, on the contrary, are dependent on others. European dictators are a result.
Dr. Adler said, "The willingness of people to have things done for them breeds insanity. Insanity is probably on the increase over there."
Poor psychological education is the cause of world ills he declared. Failure to understand two types of children—the potential neurotic and the potential delinquent—causes them to grow up as criminals, insane, drunks, or just ordinary misfits.
He said:
The next step in the forward evolution of mankind will be teachers with the proper psychological education to recognize these classes of children and cure their weaknesses before adulthood.
Fuente: «Savant Says Independence In U.S. Keeps Down Insanity», The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa (California), jueves 13 de agosto de 1936, p. 1, despacho de la Associated Press fechado en San Francisco el 12 de agosto, sin firma. Transcripción hecha sobre la imagen de la página en la California Digital Newspaper Collection (SRPD19360813.1.1), cotejada con el OCR de la plataforma. El espaciado de «savant» se da en cursiva. Una versión más breve del mismo despacho salió en The San Bernardino Sun del 14 de agosto de 1936, p. 6 («Independence Named As Bar to Insanity», SBS19360814.1.6; no cotejada). Es una pieza distinta de la entrevista «'Mike Fright' Is Explained by Dr. Adler» (Oakland Tribune, 13 de agosto de 1936), publicada en las entrevistas del archivo. Las palabras partidas a final de línea se unen.