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The war on unhappiness:
Goodbye Freud, hello positive thinking
Gary Greenberg’s most recent book is Manufacturing Depression. His last article for Harper’s Magazine, “A Mind of Its Own,” appeared in June 2008._
Sigmund Freud was already fifty-three when he came to America for the first time. He almost didn’t make it at all. As he explained to Stanley Hall, the president of Clark University, the $400 he’d been offered to appear at a conference celebrating the school’s twentieth anniversary was simply not enough to compensate him for the time away from his practice. But when Wilhelm Wundt, a psychologist even more famous than Freud, pulled out of the conference, Hall offered his $750 fee to Freud, agreed to move the meeting to coincide with Freud’s vacation, and threw in an honorary degree. Freud booked his passage right away.
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