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since. It is based on the life of the mad King of Bavaria. It had a Freudian concept and when I explained what I thought was its concept to Albert, it had a profound and dramatic effect on him. He hadn't realized that one's subconscious played such an enormous part in one's life. He had been one of these people of action who had really not dared to take the time to look under the surface, under his own surface or anybody else's, a great deal. He was very intuitive but he really didn't know that there was a whole world of the unconscious that you could explore.

And I gradually began to talk to him about going to an analyst because I saw he was so distressed, and I realized that he was distressed about something that he wasn't able to face. I finally thought that maybe I was making an impression on him and, indeed, I think the beginning of December of '39, I got him to go to an outstanding internist here, called Robert Loeb at Presbyterian Medical Center. And the story of that is fairly well described in Mr. Gunther's book.

Loeb examined him carefully and said there was nothing the matter with him physically, and I said to Loeb, “Listen, there's something the matter with him, and if you can't find anything the matter with him physically, what about urging him to go to a psychoanalyst.” And Loeb said to me, “What! Send that wonderful man to a psychoanalyst?” And I said, “Yes, Why not? He needs help,” and he said, “Well, here's the name of a man who won't do him any harm anyway,” and he fished in his draw and took out the name of Dr. George Daniel. And we