SCHROEDER, Theodore

Censors and Psychopaths

Cos Cob, Conn.: Self-published, [1925]. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. Four-page leaflet. Some foxing; else about fine. [77099]

"What is not generally understood is that all despotisms should be considered problems of mental hygiene, and all support of censorships should be considered as problems of abnormal psychology ... All mere quarrels about the acquired meaning of what is 'moral' is mere piffle ..." Only through the field of abnormal psychology "will we ever get an adequate understanding of the sources and damnation of our sex-censorship. Mental hygiene societies, profitably managed or supported by psychoneurotics, are not likely to encourage such a psycho-genetic investigation as would touch some of their own vital complexes. Moralists for revenue, and professional mental hygienists who are not yet emancipated from the subjective conflict of pubescence and adolescence ... will be equally reluctant"

Price: $37.50