Word: analyst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pussycat is about as organized as a "happening." The loose plot concerns a young rake who is perplexed at his Don Juan complex and seeks the aid of a sex-starved pyschoanalyst. The analyst, played by Peter Sellers, believes in "group therapy," which means orgies. The final orgy, held at a small chateau just outside Paris, includes everything from timebombs to Ursella Andress...
...techniques of talk-it-out psychotherapy have changed slowly but significantly since Sigmund Freud first stretched patients out on a couch. The Freudian "50-Minute Hour," originally restricted to patient and analyst, has led to two-hour sessions of group therapy in which half a dozen or so patients, all with similar symptoms, get together with the same therapist. Now Los Angeles' Dr. George R. Bach, 51, a Latvian-born Ph.D. psychologist, has pushed the trend -both in time and numbers-about as far as it can reasonably go. He has enlarged the cast to a dozen or more...
...Bait the Analyst. A typical group that met last month in Bach's stylish sunken Hollywood living room included the doctor and his wife Peggy, the Negro manager of a nearby gas station, an industrial designer and his actress wife, a woman composer in her mid-20s and her boy friend, a young couple married only a year, a marriage counselor, a middle-aged couple, and two psychiatrists. All had been chosen because, although they had neurotic problems, they were not likely to flip under the rigors of their therapeutic talkathon...
Bach has found that the patient-participants who find it hardest to drop their masks and profit from revealing their true natures are the professional people, especially the analysts. But a woman analyst wrote that "it was the best experience as a patient I ever had." Like Bach, she had become a devotee of the long weekend of talk. "Later marathons with my own patients," she added, "have been the most rewarding experiences of my career...
Peter O'Toole deserves the faintest applause for his fussy posturing as a Parisian fashion editor. He is supposedly irresistible to women, and they to him. So he delays marrying a determined fraülein (Romy Schneider), consults a sex-crazed Viennese analyst (Peter Sellers), and calls forth memories of his sexual prowess, filmed appropriately in dull blue-grey hues. When O'Toole isn't reminiscing, he is bedding or about to bed Romy, a Crazy Horse stripper (Paula Prentiss), a groundling nymphomaniac (Capucine) or a nymphomaniac who descends by parachute (Ursula Andress). Sellers dresses...