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Have you branched out and read Jung also?

Well, I've read some parts of his last book, which didn't convince me that he was more creative than Freud. I really think Freud was the originator and Jung was an apostle who got lost a little.

Your knowledge of psychiatry, has this been useful to you in pursuing the idea of medical research?

Yes, it's been extremely useful to me. I've consulted psychiatrists when I've had problems myself. I've never been completely analyzed although I worked for a few months with one analyst, and I probably would understand and be more skillful in getting more done if I had been analyzed. The analyst I would have liked most to have gone to is living on the Pacific Coast and sometimes I go to see him when I'm there, and that's Dr. Franz Alexander, who was a disciple of Freud and who was the first one to suggest that everybody does not need a long classical Freudian analysis to be helped, that there are some types of neuroses that can be treated through brief psychotherapy.

Do you think that in your experience with it that it gives a person an easier insight into other people?

It gives you insight into yourself and also into the possibilities of others, the vast human possibilities there