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...forest. Snow White is pursued by an assassin sent by her stepmother, the Queen, and then by the Queen herself. Fairy tales are, in fact, full of parents and stepparents with a murderous bent toward kids. So why do children continue to read them? Manhattan Psychoanalyst Dorothy Bloch, 66, believes she knows why: the small child has an "almost built-in" fear of infanticide, which these hoary horror stories help expunge...
...Bloch's view is part of her new book, So the Witch Won't Eat Me (Houghton Mifflin; $9.95). Despite its slightly frivolous title, its central idea is quite serious. After 25 years' work with some 600 patients, most of them children, she concludes that fear of infanticide is crucial in early psychological development and sometimes in later psychological problems as well. Among her patients, she points out, she "never found anyone who did not have this fear and whose lifestyle was not designed to deal with...
According to Bloch, all children find the parental power over life and death highly threatening. Since children find it too dangerous to direct anger and terror at their parents, those emotions are displaced onto witches, goblins and other fantasy figures. Usually a temporary retreat into fantasy is enough to exorcise the child's fear. But sometimes, especially if a youngster is subjected to severe parental abuse, perhaps beatings, the child can turn to potentially damaging reveries, including ones about changes in sexual role. In effect, the child says: "Maybe Daddy would really love me if I were...
Harvard investigators concluded also that Thomas had not violated any safety guidelines, although the University's report differed factually from NIH, Bloch said yesterday...
...investigating committees, which included a Harvard committee directed by Konrad E. Bloch, professor of Biochemistry, as well as the NIH board began looking into Thomas's research in February after a graduate student who worked in his lab reported that Thomas was conducting P-3 experiments...