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Today the bad penny returns. Dr. Bach's implication that provoking couples to fight before a group-therapy referee will alter the basic repository of man's hostility sounds equally naive. As a psychoanalyst in practice, I cannot believe...
...choir--hoping to raise $3000---will perform Bach's Passion According to St. John in Memorial Church, John Ferris, University organist, said yesterday. Memorial Church will sponsor the concert so that all profits may go to the Institute...
...FOUL!" when a blow lands below the emotional "belt line," a taboo region that each partner should reflectively set for himself. Vague as this sounds, Bach says that well-motivated couples do not fake belt lines in order to duck issues; they know overuse will give them the fresh problem of a credibility...
...maddening self-consciousness of Bach's techniques wears away, he and Wyden say, as couples master the art of intimate battle. "Our system is not a sport like boxing," the authors write. "It is more like a cooperative skill, such as dancing." But they warn that "with acquaintances, clients or 'dates,' a bad fight can be final." And although the technique is rooted in the footnotes of wide scholarship, Bach himself admits that some responsible critics worry that the method is too superficial and only skims the surface of deeper problems...
...reply, Bach says that follow-up studies of the couples he has "fight-trained" show 85% of them "living much more satisfying (if perhaps noisier) lives than before." Some 200 other therapists have come to watch and learn what they can from the Bachian brouhaha approach to honest marriage. Eventually, Bach asks buoyantly, why not teach fight training on television...