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...interaction with his cronies is cut out from under him," says Psychiatrist Stephen Landau of the University of Michigan. Having studied the increasing numbers of unemployed who are being treated at the university's emergency psychiatric clinic, Landau says that they frequently show signs of apathy, lethargy, despair and even suicidal depression. The mere threat of losing a job, he reports, can lead to "anticipatory symptoms," including heavy drinking. The child clinic is also getting "a lot of cases where a father is laid off and the adolescents explode with the tensions created in the home." Landau cites studies...
...writing. And they requested that he and 13 others, including radical lawyer William Kunstler and Black Panther Party leader Bobby Scale, form an observers' committee through which the inmates might negotiate with the state. Four years later the Grand Jury has finished its work, and Wicker anger and despair have culminated in A Time To Die, his personal chronicle of the Attica weekend September 9 through...
...Kael reviewed John Cassavetes's A Woman Under the Influence in a yawning rerun where R.D. Laing--that tired old intellectual straw man--is propped up only to be laid flat. Going on nothing more concrete than the fact that "The theories of R.D. Laing, the poet of schizophrenic despair, have such theatrical flash that they must hit John Cassavetes smack in the eye," she proclaims his movie "the work of a disciple." She then criticizes the film for straying from a strict Laingian analysis and plunges in the final stake by rejecting the movie because she rejects Laing...
...movies are a dark and mysterious memory. They are in every little town and in every eye both the hope and the despair. And they are the chronicle by which we live. Not television. Not books either because books are really much more commercial in a sense. Films cannot be commercial. There's too much effort by too many people involved that have to get along. So if a film comes out and it's good, you know those people had to share...
...review with a few comments on the theories of schizophrenia expressed by R.D. Laing. Dispersed throughout the article are several particularly unusual phrases used by Kael in her review. One of Stephen's lines reads as follows: "[Gena Rowlands] moves from spasms of manic nervousness to chastened, hurt-animal despair..." Kael's review reads, "Mabel returns, chastened, a fearful hurt-animal look on her face." This is a common enough phrase, were it not followed later in Stephen's review by the Jine, "Mabel waits for the schoolbus to return with her kids, pacing like an anxious speed freak..." Kael...