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...dangerous to patients and families. Dolnick does not launch into a diatribe against all forms of psychotherapy. Although psychotherapy can be effective for treating neuroses (relatively benign emotional disorders), Dolnick targets psychoanalysts who tried to cure psychoses (marked disorders of perception or reality) with talk therapy alone. From the 1940s to the 1970s an aggressive cabal of psychoanalysts fit such a bill; they scoffed at the biological origins of mental illness, eschewed treating schizophrenia with drugs and thought that their "talking" forms of therapy could single-handedly illuminate the darkest corners of the human psyche. Their intention was to unlock...
...grew up in the 1940s and 1950s, the time of rigid blatant segregation and the ugly raw hatred that is almost impossible to imagine," Mack said...
...camera to place viewers in the midst of battle, making them feel the pain and acknowledge the pointlessness. A recent report in Business Week revealed that Spielberg was "determined not to sign off on the movie until the World War II epic [had] the adequately faded look of a 1940s-era documentary." Clearly, it's the reality of war, not a glorification, that Spielberg is after...
DIED. LEO PENN, 77, actor who survived a decade on the Hollywood blacklist to become an award-winning television director and raise show-biz progeny Sean, Chris and Michael; in Los Angeles. After appearances on Broadway and a studio contract in the 1940s, Penn was blacklisted for supporting the Hollywood 10. He found work behind the camera, directing more than 400 hours of prime-time programming, including episodes of Kojak, St. Elsewhere and Columbo, for which he won a 1973 Emmy...
...year veteran of the Washington legal scene, Stein, 73, looks back fondly on an earlier time, when the D.C. bar was filled with eccentrics. The leading criminal lawyer in the 1940s, Stein once recalled, got his cases because he was best friends with the chief of police. And when he made a closing argument, he screamed at the jury so loudly that he could be heard in Judiciary Square. "The bar used to have a roguish element about it, which in a sense was wholesome," Stein told the Washingtonian. "Lawyers didn't take themselves seriously...