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I have your questions here. You asked me first my general impressions, ideas, and experiences in psychiatry. I haven’t any personal experience with psychiatry; that is, I have never been to a psychiatrist. I have known a number of psychiatrists, however, and I have talked to them. . . and I have gone back to 50 years ago here in Chicago when a friend of mine was a student of Jung. . . and I have had conversations with people for many years and I have had a number of students at the university who have been going to psychiatrists. And I have always really questioned whether those students who were going to psychiatrists really needed to go to psychiatrists–almost all of them were students of wealthy families and were having troubles with their families and maybe that was the thing to do. I had a tendency to feel that these students depended too much on the psychiatrist. They were just making another parent and continuing with whatever the problems were and they were just not trying to figure things out on their own.
I have been told by my friends–and particularly by my friend of 50 years ago, Dr. Douglas __________, the man who was a student of Jung. . . he said that I had self-analyzed"
