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...of whatever sexual leaning if they plan to become a patient of Dr. Berglor. To all other persons having neurotic tendencies, I suggest that you leave the volume unpurchased, to be returned to the publisher, rather than place yourselves in the position of being deceived by the Author's ideas and thereby having an increase in your own feelings of guilt in an already too guilt-ridden world.

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FROM ONE DEGREE TO ANOTHER

DEGREE

By Robert Phillips, M. D.

The next comment is by a doctor who formerly served in the U. S. Navy. Fe writes:

In "Homosexuality: Disease or Way of Life," Dr. Borgler's evidence that all homosexuals are neurotic acts as coercive proof for himself since all those who came to him for treatment or who are brought to him for treatment by their shocked relatives or friends are necessarily neurotic or they would not be in the office of a psychiatrist. Likewise all heterosexuals who consult him on a doctor-patient basis are neurotic. Re seems to feel that a majority of heterosexuals are not very neurotic-a debatable point. }

Since in any society the beliefs and laws are regulated by the overall group to best preserve the integrity of the whole, these guidances produce at least a relativo stability within the majority, and in acting as a form of censure these same rules also create a relatively unstable minority since no system of conduct could possibly apply to all: It is ovident that the vary creation of this or any system is recognition of differences and alternativas. As heterosexuals comprise a majority, most of the stable members of the society are heterosexuals and it is unfortumate that Dr. Bergler's albeit limited environment has not produced for his study and observation the stable homosexual minority. To find these persons he must lay aside his medical cloak and go out into the world since the highways of stability do not pass through his office.

That a majority of homosexuals are neurotic and psychic masochists is quite satisfactorily explained in his own words, "...the superego cannot impose punishment for actions approved by the environment", if the converse is accepted that the superego will impose punishment for actions not approved by the environment.

The dismissal of Dr. Alfred Kinsey as a "medical layman" does injustice to the statistical study. Kinsey's remarks concerning them may wall represent his own opinions, but the statistics, of whatever value they may be, are not entirely his own. Calling attention to the fact that Dr. Kinsey does not have a medical degree is an attempt to discredit the man and thereby his reasoning-a common fallacy of reasoning. The obtaining of a medical degree and adding thereto a specialised study within tho medical field does not confer a super degree of intelligence or imply objectivity of the reasoning rind, Dr. Kinsey could just as easily have pointed out the degrees which Dr. Bergler does not possess and his resultant litations although such restrictions of knowledge are a result of one's lack of study and not academic degrees. This fact is of no value to the author as he diadsses his colleagues who differ from his opinions simply as misguided and clinging to outmoded concepts or as members of a dead or dying generation. Be presents his own ego ideal in the blatantly false statement, "There is unanimity among psychiatrists that homosexmality is a disease." Is this a sign of progress? Do payahiatrists believe there is at least something about which they have unaninity of opinion?

In the book the author demonstrates a profound knowledge of the development of human personality and its problems, in a Freudian sort of Is it way, in the company with his systen of ideas about homosexuality. possible that instead of his unconscious ideas going on where his logic ends that these unconscious ideas are used as a starting point or assist for the logical system?

The book is recommended reading for any neurotic person of whatever

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