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Psychotherapy has never been easily available to the aged. Since it demands so much time and effort, it is considered better to expend it on those who have a long life ahead. There is also the still-powerful influence of Freud. If one's behavior is believed to be programmed in the first years of life, one cannot hope to change that program substantially during old age. (Freud, who contributed to ageism, was also its victim. At 81, discussing "the many free hours with which my dwindling analytical practice has presented me," he added: "It is understandable that patients...
...thesis of these films that student violence can be explained away with an ounce of Spock, a pound of Kenniston, and a ton of Freud. Sex, fun and games: youth culture films attempt to portray student-police confrontation as the new campus sport. Students are heavily gassed inside an enclosed building but they can still run and sing for minutes and even gang up on an isolated policeman. The students cough: they bleed; they cry-but it is all razzle-dazzle ball and tonight they will exaggerate their battle wounds so they can sleep with the sexy chick or that...
...Walsh) is a frightening reminder of the hysterical women who were Freud's first patients. Against her, a lesser woman would be consumed, but Shimkus makes Yvette an individual of greater and more durable passion. She rides time like a ship; youth, philosophy, the century itself are the winds at her back. When she prevails, it is because of balance and conviction...
...Freud diagnosed half his "major" cases as hysteria, most of the rest as neuroses or phobias susceptible to treatment. Only 7% of his "minor" patients did he consider to be suffering from psychosis, the most serious class of psychological disorder. Brody speculates that this may have led to the belief, still current, that psychoanalysis does not work with most psychotics...
There are other implications in Brody's findings. He noted that "Freud's patients were drawn exclusively from the upper and middle class." Brody asks: "Is it possible that something in the ideology and technique of analysis makes it difficult for lower-class people to use successfully...