[lbo-talk] Review of Joseph Wortis' *Soviet Psychiatry* in "Masses and Mainstream" (September 1950)

[Devine, James]

Thomas Seay writes:
>As a side note, here in Beijing I had lunch yesterday
with Chen Xueshi, one of the leading psychiatrists in
China.  He treated Mao's son (the one not killed in
the Korean war) and Madame Mao herself.  For his
efforts he was rewarded 6 years imprisonment during
the Cultural Revolution for promoting
"Counter-revolutionary medicine"!  Turns out his Red
Guard daughter (who, by the way now lives in Hong Kong
and is married to the editor of the Chinese edition of
Wall Street Journal) found some notes on Freud laying
around his office and turned him in.  Chen told me
that he studied Freud but that at the time he followed
a behaviorist model.  You can read some more about
Chen in that book by Mao's doctor...the
transliteration of his name might be different though.<

this reminds me of 1976, when a Maoist in Mexico told me that the when the CP took over China, the problem of mental illness disappeared.
Jim D. 

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