SEARCH FOR LOVE

by Lucy Freeman ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 18, 1957

A popular popularizer of psychiatry who once used her own story now uses others' as she advises them in question and answer presentation and proselytizes for the type of help this medium offers. The many letters from troubled people deal with physical and psychological anxieties, with situations involving parents, husbands, wives, children- or their own lacunae, with sexual deviations, with alcoholism and other excesses. Her advice to them, which is comfortably vague and usually recommends the solicitation of professional help or local counseling, also includes a general dismissal of other treatments (hypnosis, shock, tranquilizers, etc.) in favor of psychoanalysis which alone offers a more permanent, a more thorough type of therapy and ""a new kind of vision"".... For that market- not to be underestimated- which finds this type of generalized guidance helpful.

Pub Date: March 18, 1957

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: World

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1957

Categories: NONFICTION