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When Britain's stringy-maned lion of letters, brash Author Colin Wilson, 25, published his 288-page tract, The Outsider (TIME, July 2)-a widely hailed diagnosis of civilization's sickness and a prescription of a new religion to cure it-few had ever heard of him. But Britons have been nearly deafened ever since by Wilson's roaring. Aping the brusque hyperboles of one of his few idols, George Bernard Shaw, Wilson has gone about insulting both hosts and lecture audiences, damning society for its regressive complacency, whimsically denigrating Shakespeare ("a great poet with the mentality...
...complaints, there seems to be no quick cure for the habit. By now too many children have apparently come to believe that Government and industry have a sort of duty to get them through school. As one California fifth-grader wrote: "Will you Please send me some pitures of Pennsylvania Because I'am study Pennsylvaina In school. I need pictues of Penn. very bad. So please send me some pictures. If I don't get some picturs I will flop in school...
With the Bathwater. In Longxuyen, Viet Nam, cops arrested Sorcerer Nguyen Van Do for murder, got an explanation: with his professional reputation at stake after he had failed to cure an addled old farmer of his insanity, Van Do had resorted to a surefire cure, dunked the patient in boiling water...
Usable Guilt. What of cures? Psychiatrist Bergler takes his own profession to task for having been, in the past, too pessimistic. It can effect cures in 90% of cases, he insists, provided that analyst and patient are willing to take the tremendous time and effort to get to the root of the difficulty. By "cure" Bergler does not mean making a guilty homosexual proud of his perversion, but changing his character and, among other things, leading him to normal sexual enjoyment...
...Bergler advises analysts not to attempt the impossible, and suggests these criteria by which they can judge whether a prospective patient offers reasonable hope of cure: he must have inner guilt feelings that can be put to use in treatment; he must accept the treatment voluntarily and actively want to change; he must give up his habit of using homosexuality as a weapon against his family, which (unconsciously) he always hates. The analyst must not begin by attacking the homosexuality head on-or the patient will at once cry that he is being persecuted. Yet the analyst must convince...