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506 pages, Paperback
First published March 6, 2012
(Alfred Rosenberg talks to psychiatrist and friend, Friedrich Pfister)
"I have to confess that you're the first psychiatrist I've ever met. I know nothing about your field"
"Well, for centuries, psychiatrists have primarily been diagnosticians and custodians for hospitalized psychotic, almost incurable patients, but all that has changed in the last decade. The change began with Sigmund Freud in Vienna, who invented the talking treatment called psychoanalysis , which permits us to help patients overcome psychological problems. Today we can treat such ailments as extreme anxiety or intractable grief or something we call hysteria-an ailment in which a patient has psychologically caused physical symptoms like paralysis or even blindness. My teachers in Zurich, Carl Jung and Eugen Bleuler, have been pioneers in this field. I'm intrigued by this approach and will soon be starting advanced training in psychoanalysis in Berlin with Karl Abraham, a highly regarded teacher".
"I've heard some things about psychoanalysis . I've heard it referred to as another Jewish intrigue. Are your teachers all Jews?
"Certainly not Jung or Bleuler"
"But Friedrich, why involve yourself in a Jewish field?"
"It will be a Jewish field unless we Germans step in. Or put it another way: It's too good to be left to the Jews"