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Well, to go back to Paul Reinhardt, I urged him to go to a psychoanalyst but either it was the wrong one or his resistance to it was too great. He went once, and returned home to say, “I have been analyzed.” Strangely enough, after we were divorced he stopped drinking, after he had met a charming woman called Louise. His alcoholism, unfortunately, made him dislike eating properly balanced food, and so even though he gave up drinking for two years before he died, he died of avitaminosis, severe malnutrition, in January of 1945. This was a great frustration and distress to me as well as to his wife, as it really was a loss that if he had more insight and better medical care earlier might have been avoided as he was not an alcoholic at all at the time. He just didn't eat properly. He had gotten used to not eating when he drank, and the result was that while he didn't drink he didn't have sufficient nourishment or a mixture of proper foods.

During the '30s however, having realized how frustrating my experience in my marriage with Paul had been due to alcoholism and realizing there was much about the human mind and soul that one was not taught in school, I read some literature in the field of psychoanalysis, as I've said, and became friends with one or two outstanding psychoanalysts. One was Franz Alexander, who at the time had written a book describing the medical value of psychoanalysis in some types of illnesses, especially stomach ulcers and asthma. He later went on to describe the emotional patterns of people who have severe hypertension and also to