CATHOLIC PROFESSOR CONDEMNED ONE TYPE OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS
WASHINGTON, July 21. Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Washington, has issued a statement regarding Freudianism, one of the types of psycho-analysis. Monsignor Sheen’s statement has followed an announcement of the resignation of Dr Frank J. Curran from his psychiatric posts in the New York Catholic diocese, including the St. Vincent’s Hospital, and other similar institutions. In his statement on the matter, Monsignor Sheen says that he did not condemn psychiatry or psycho-analy-sis in general. Monsignor Sheen said that, actually, he did not speak on psychiatry, which was a perfectly valid science, nor did he speak on psycho-analysis in general, which, in its methods, had rediscovered, on its fringes, the doctrine of original sim He spoke “only of a particular type of psycho-analysis, called Freudianism, which is based on four assumptions—materialism, hedonism, infantilism, and eroticism; and this, only to the extent that it denies sin, and would supplant confession.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 July 1947, Page 7
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