5th Law School Forum Will Discuss 'Psychiatry in Neurotic America'

"Psychiatry in Neurotic America" will be the subject of the fifth Law Forum of the fall at 8 p.m. tonight in the Rindge Tech Auditorium. Dr. Karen Horney, dean of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, heads the list of four speakers who will discuss the practical uses to which the science of the mind can be put.

Other members of this evening's panel are: Dr. George Gardner, director of the Judge Baker Children's Psychiatric Clinic in Boston; the Reverend Robert C. Leslie, Chaplain of the Boston and Massachusetts State Psychopathic Hospitals; and Gordon w. Allport '19, professor of Psychology. Jerome S. Bruner, associate professor of Psychology, will act as moderator.

Dr. Horney specializes writing books on psychoanalysis for the layman, pointing out ways in which the readers can achieve greater happiness through an understanding of how his mind operates. Among her published works are "The Neurotic Personality of Our Time," "Self Analysis," and, most recently, "Neurosis and Human Growth."

Dr. Gardner, a professor of child psychiatry at the Boston College School of Social Work, has been a lecturer at Tufts Medical school since 1941. He has specialized in enabling children to readjust themselves.

Loslie is expected to discuss the ways in which faith and psychology can be reconciled.

Allport is an expert on crowd psychology and propaganda techniques. He is also a director of the National Opinion Research Center.

The forum will try to avoid consideration of the technical procedures of psychiatry and intends, instead to concentrate on the practical, every-day suspects of the subject.