Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roth's use of the psychoanalytic confession makes for a most interesting form of characterization. Instead of delineating character, Portnoy recreates monsters. When Holden Caulfield told it all to a psychiatrist in Catcher in the Rye, it was really just a narrative device, just an excuse for the telling of...
Sir: Your Essay on prisoners of war tops them all. I am deeply thankful to you for saying so well what I have been saying privately. You said it all with one exception-condemnation for whoever withheld the Government's "confession" for those eleven long months.
In the decision, Judge J. Skelly Wright pointed out that, from the Scientologists' point of view, the "auditing or processing is a central practice of their religion, akin to confession in the Catholic Church." Furthermore, said Wright, Scientology's leaders claim that the E-meter is not used...
The second thing bothering him was the unstated assumption that since everybody else had come with a confession to make, the boy must have one too. From the start, even though he had been quiet, he had felt the group's curiosity about him. They were confessing themselves, and they...
Some people in the Defense Department have proposed that the U.S. ignore confessions altogether. They argue that P.O.W.s should sign anything, as long as they do not divulge classified military information or imperil other prisoners. A well-publicized official policy to this effect would drain confessions of any real significance...