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Saul B. Newton (June 25, 1906 – December 21, 1991) was a controversial psychotherapist who led an unorthodox therapy group in New York City. It had no formal name, but outsiders referred to members as "Sullivanians" or "The Fourth Wall." Background Newton's original family name was Cohen. He was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, and attended the University of Wisconsin. Career Newton went on to Chicago, where he associated with radical circles at the University of Chicago, becoming a communism, communist and anti-fascism, anti-fascist. He served with the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War (as Saul Bernard Cohen). In 1943 he was drafted into the U.S. Army and fought in World War II. He went on to study psychotherapy after the war. Newton retained a dual focus on politics and psychology throughout his life. In 1957, Newton and his wife, Jane Pearce, founded the Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis in New York. They ...
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Saul (; , ; , ; ) was a monarch of ancient Israel and Judah and, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament, the Kings of Israel and Judah, first king of the United Monarchy, a polity of uncertain historicity. His reign, traditionally placed in the late eleventh century BCE, according to the Bible, marked the transition of the Israelites from a scattered tribal society ruled by various Biblical judges, judges to organized statehood. The historicity of Saul and the United Kingdom of Israel is not universally accepted, as Historicity of the Bible, what is known of both comes exclusively from the Hebrew Bible. According to the text, he was anointed as king of the Israelites by Samuel, and reigned from Gibeah. Saul is said to have committed suicide when he fell on his sword during a battle with the Philistines at Mount Gilboa, in which three of his sons were also killed. Saul's son Ish-bosheth succeeded him to the throne, reigning for only two years before being murdered by ...
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