Word: couching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally she seats you on a long bench-like couch, surrounded by potted plastic palms and the kind of pastel spotlights that most Hollywood apartments have only on the outside, underneath what you take must be a self-portrait of herself in the nude...
After describing how he was psychiatrically shriven of fear, at least for the time being, Greene quotes Dr. Freud: "Much is won if we succeed in transforming hysterical misery into common unhappiness." Alas, the post-couch Greene found himself afflicted with what he describes as a lifelong case of crushing boredom. Antidotes have included staying more or less drunk during his whole first year at Oxford, as well as a famous incident-described in an earlier literary collection and incorporated almost verbatim into this book-about playing Russian roulette with his brother's revolver. After six attempts, Greene insists...
...palace houses the famed Topkapi jewels, long a must for tourists in present-day Istanbul, but the principal sight will be the intricate maze of grandly decorated apartments. They include the gilded, rococo Hall of the Sultan, where reigning monarchs reclined on a brocaded couch to watch dancing girls perform. Near by are the royal baths, which featured marble floors, golden faucets and slave girls to assist the sultan in his bath. Then there are the gilded and inlaid bedchambers...
...their sons and want to kill them," he declared. "This congress treats its main topic as if aggression were limited to relations between two individuals, as if we were not faced constantly with war and mass murder." Then Mitscherlich made a heretical suggestion: analysts should get out of the couch-lined offices where they treat only one patient at a time, and join the action alongside the social sciences. "What can we as analysts do in our respective communities? How can we bring reason to bear on dangerous rationalizations that are being used to justify openly aggressive behavior?" he asked...
...with much of the original furniture for its opening last week as a museum. There were his cream-colored velour hat, his checkered sports cap, his ivory-handled cane, sent over from London by his psychoanalyst daughter Anna Freud. She could not bear, however, to part with the famed couch. Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky was on hand for the occasion, with a clutch of city councilors, but Vienna is still almost as cool as it always was to its most illustrious modern son. Of the city's 113 listed psychiatrists, only twelve practice Freud's analysis, and Vienna...