He wrote books and articles on a wide range of topics, including medicine and psychiatry, and testified in the trial of Alger Hiss.
White consulted Binger, a pioneer in the field of psychosomatic medicine, during a nervous breakdown in the spring of that year.
[4] In the summer of 1951 he resigned his position of directing the two-million-dollar-endowed Mary Conover Mellon Foundation out of concern for the "sexual development of undergraduates in an atmosphere of supervision by matriarchy.
On August 17, 1948, The New York Times interviewed Binger during a conference on mental health and reported: Professor Binger pointed to the "bugaboo of communism," which he said was now spreading a state of "neurotic anxiety" throughout the United States.
Fanned largely by "big business" and by vote-getters, this "neurosis," Professor Binger added, has become confused in public minds with the "legitimate fears" of Russia and, under such conditions, he asserted, not only the people of the United States but also its leaders and policymakers are in danger of losing a rational, objective approach to world problems.
Chambers is suffering from a condition known as psychopathic personality, which is a disorder of character, of which the outstanding features are behavior of what we call an amoral or an asocial and delinquent nature.
[13] In his testimony with Prosecutor Thomas Francis Murphy, the following exchange occurred regarding the Pumpkin Papers: MURPHY: You say that a man who was living on a farm in 1948, who puts pretty valuable papers in a pumpkin that he has hollowed out right by his door, is bizarre?
MURPHY: If, Doctor, you assume that these microfilms were previously in his house and he moved them from room to room, and that the day that he put them in the pumpkin was the day that he was going to leave his farm, and assume further that there were different people in and about the farm looking for things, wouldn't you say, Doctor, that that was a pretty good hiding place?
As a matter of fact, don't you remember reading, Doctor, that when Benedict Arnold sold out West Point and gave the plans to Major André, do you know where he put the plans when he was caught, just up here by Tarrytown?
MURPHY: I am asking you, Doctor, whether the action of Moses' mother in putting the young child in the bulrushes was bizarre behavior?
[13] Summing up Binger's input to the case, John V. Fleming wrote: The junk literary criticism was handmaid to the junk science introduced into the first trial by one of Hiss's testimonial experts, the psychiastrist Carl Binger.