Some of these refugees, whose families and friends were murdered by fascists, actually wished to treat their tormenters, to have them as patients. They didn’t want them to go to jail or be killed. Instead, the refugee practitioners wanted to talk to their persecutors about their feelings. I find this to be remarkable. That, like Edith Weigert, some of these refugees saw fascism as a neurosis, a compulsion to act out on anxieties about Jews and Communists. And her beautiful vision, The Courage to Love, expressed that, by talking to them in a therapeutic relationship, she could help them
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