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went out of his office and out to see Albert, and he gave it to Albert and said, “Now, go see this man.”

Now, Albert did not hear this conversation. This is not reported correctly in John Gunther's book because John didn't want to insult poor Dr. Loeb, who's not at all interested in psychoanalysis and all he wanted was that Albert shouldn't be harmed and he didn't know what to do with me to satisfy me that something had to be done to help him.

So, Albert started to go to George Daniel sometime in December and George Daniel did indeed--the technique of analysis was a great help to Albert--give Albert tremendous relief in what was really a mild and certainly not a thorough-going psychoanalysis. He had psychoanalytic sessions, in other words, with Daniel, and his life had been very full and it probably would have taken a very long time to have what would have been a thoroughgoing analysis. But, at any rate, he was enormously helped by him.

By this time, I realized that I was in love with him and around this time he realized that he was in love with me. I forget what the sequence of it was, but in any case in early January my mother became very ill and died about the 8th of January, I think on the 8th of January, and this was a great stress to me. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage, as my father had. I was deeply resentful that nothing could be done to help her, and you will see later what I tried to do to help this situation.





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