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CHARLOTTE CRANE...
...hard to give him the last measure of commitment-and even love-that a passionate reader gives to a very few writers: (let's say) Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Twain, Melville, Yeats, Crane and yesbygod Hemingway. Is it Updike's faint tinge of smugness? Is he too much a cherisher of clever conceits? The reasons seem murkier the more they are examined, but they refuse to be examined away. What stirs these grumbles this time is the author's new collection of short stories. The book also stirs, of course, all of the old admiration: Lord, how well...
...organization has no better testimonial to its usefulness than the experience of its Chicago-based director of leader training, Phil Crane, 64. His law career was cut short by paranoid schizophrenia, and he had more than 90 electroshock treatments. After that, Recovery. "It taught me self-help techniques," Crane explains. "I'd wake up, panicked that I would again become mentally ill and have to go back to the hospital. So I'd practice what Low called spotting, which is simply learning to recognize that these are only nervous symptoms-distressing but not dangerous. I then practiced...
Like many former patients, when he met old friends Crane would feel self-conscious about having been hospitalized for mental illness. According to Low's specific instructions, Crane "practiced 'averageness' by commanding my muscles to make me walk up to my friend, then shake hands, smile, and chat for a while. I proved to myself that I could look at my past mental illness in the same way I would look at pneumonia or any other physical illness...
Recovery, Inc. does not try to diagnose emotional disturbances, says Crane. It cannot handle acute psychotic episodes. It does not compete with professionals: many of its members go concurrently to psychiatrists or other therapists. About half of its clientele are suffering from the residua of severe, hospitalized illness; the other half are neurotics with chronic problems that make it difficult for them to cope with the frustrations of everyday living...