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MORE popular than those who claim psychiatry is a fantasy, however, are others who maintain that psychiatrists themselves are crazy. I had originally thought such people were confined to an elementary school art teacher who, upon hearing my father was a psychiatrist, crossed her eyes, twirled her fingers around her...
But now a popular magazine has attempted to legitimate these same sentiments. The cover article in the January 1989 issue of Atlantic Monthly attacks all people working in the helping professions. It is entitled "Wounded Healers: The old joke that therapists are more disturbed than other people may be no...
The article begins with the premise that "Something is a bit odd about people who proclaim 'I want to help other people"' and implies that "something" is that these people are stark raving mad. In the third paragraph, for example, the author quotes one woman as saying "What still strikes...
FINALLY, there are those who suggest psychiatrists raise their children funny. I, my brother Freud and sister Jung truly resent this implication. While we may be more able to recognize a blatant case of penis envy faster than the next guy, I don't believe having a psychiatrist father has...
I can't take these questions seriously. No matter how much psychiatric training my father may have, no matter how many times he rereads Freud, he will never learn to instill me with guilt like my mother can. Some things are beyond the realm of science.