Endocrinology

In 1922 in Scientific Monthly . . . the well-known science popularizer Edwin E. Slosson stated that ‘a few years ago, psychoanalysis was all the rage. Now endocrinology is coming into fashion. Those who recently were treading Freud and Jung have now taken up with Berman and Harrow.’ This comparison between psychoanalysis and endocrinology might now seem far-fetched but was then perfectly understandable. The glandular juices were seen to exercise a palpable influence over both body and soul” (Nordlund, 90-91) . . . According to Louis Berman, in his best-selling New Creations in Human Beings (1938), “Morbid individuals are therefore perfect objects for regenerative hormone therapy which, according to Berman, actually works in practice, in contrast to psychoanalysis and other alleged pseudo-sciences (Nordlund, 99).