Finding a rat in the foundations

From: The Independent - London | Date: June 22, 1996| Author: Edward Pearce | Copyright information

Psychiatry not being an exact science, its heroes resemble political prophets. Freud, Jung and Adler stand before us like Lenin, Trotsky and, I suppose, Eduard Bernstein, (the hesitant, commonsensical one who committed treason against mystique). Adler believed that the driving force in the psyche was rooted in the desire to dominate others. In Humpty Dumpty's terms, "The question is, which is to be master? That's all"

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