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...York State Psychiatric Institute, who treated Logan, trumpets lithium in his book Moodswing (William Morrow and Co.) as the start of a revolution in psychiatry in which drug cures will supersede psychoanalysis and other therapies aimed at emotional change. To the dismay of many Freudians, Fieve said that Freud's classic analysis of the "Wolf Man" was a failure, and that the patient, a severely disturbed Russian aristocrat, could have been cured quickly with lithium...
...Harris survey found that 59% of men advocated greater opportunities for women. In some ways, the recession brought a kind of enforced enlightenment: husbands badly needed their wives'?or daughters'?paychecks to help support the family. Many men may still ask their oafish versions of Freud's infuriating question, "What does woman want?" But a surprising number of them have?guiltily perhaps?acknowledged the seriousness of women's complaints. While some advances have come because of women's push for equality or from affirmative-action programs, others have also resulted from a dawning recognition of the justice...
Aristotle's answer was that pity and terror purged the emotions and left the heart light. Freud thought stories of "the uncanny" released repressed anxiety-real toads come out to play in imaginary gardens. A modern German theologian, Rudolf Otto, was convinced that the goose flesh people feel at horror movies was the symptom of primitive religious experience. But a close look at the history of the fear trip-as Pop-Sociologist Les Daniels demonstrates in this witty catalogue of Who's Who in Horror-suggests more immediate historical reasons...
...today have become disenchanted with endless psychological explanation and proscriptions. The phenomenon of permissiveness was, to a degree, real, and not simply a cleverly used political epithet. Dr. Spock has acknowledged that perhaps he ought to have advised more firmness toward children at certain points in their lives. Anna Freud, the founding and guiding spirit of child psychoanalysis, has acknowledged a definite faddish element in the name of her own discipline. Right now the nature of America's future is in question; we are no longer indisputably the world's strongest power, with an apparently limitless supply...
Morgan consorts with Henry Ford, Freud visits Coney Island, and turn-of-the-century America comes of age in this lilting syncopation of fiction and history...