Word: freudian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disappointed and even inadequate, as if one had somehow not lived up to the occasion. One does toss through the supposedly sweet idleness with a lump of Calvinist guilt under the mattress; the jauntily go-get-'em "I need some work to do" does conceal, for all its Freudian banality, some sense of unworthiness: you don't deserve the pleasure of a good vacation...
...sounds good, and when I read this in the foreword to Delta of Venus I agreed wholeheartedly. Then I read the book, a strange combination of genuinely sexy and often beautiful writing, affected prose and naive Freudianism. Exotic Chinese and Africans are used as backdrops. Sensual women can be picked out from a crowd by their copies of Lady Chatterly's Lover. A man feels "blocked" and his lover suggests psychoanalysis. I ended up sympathizing somewhat with the poor lonely old codger just trying to get his rocks off and being fed Freudian morality...
That sort of dilution of the Freudian creed is already far advanced, and some critics predict that classical psychoanalysis will soon be extinct. The 1976 survey by the American Psychoanalytic Association showed that 70% of its members' patients were already receiving some kind of therapy other than psychoanalysis. Since there is no agreement on what works, Freudians?along with neo-Freudians, psychologists, counselors and Pop therapists?are all increasingly eclectic, borrowing bits and pieces of one another's methods. Even at hospitals still dominated by Freudian theory, psychiatric residents now get far more training in neurology, biochemistry, hypnosis and behavior...
...year for the five-times-a-week treatment recommended by Freud. As a concession to economic reality, most American psychoanalysts see patients only once or twice a week, and some have begun to stress even more limited short-term therapy to cut expenses further. One sign of the times: Freudian Judd Marmor, a former president of the American Psychiatric Association, now recommends treatment limited to 20 or 30 sessions, with analysts abandoning their passive role to confront patients more and speed recovery. Marmor points out that even Freud complained that some psychoanalyses seemed interminable and made the patient emotionally dependent...
More rankling still is the recent perception of male psychiatrists as sexual exploiters of their women patients. Though such behavior is clearly a violation of the Freudian ethic, which forbids any social contact between patient and doctor, to say nothing of the Hippocratic oath, there is clearly some fire behind the smoke. In Florida alone, nine psychiatrists last year were charged with sexual misconduct during therapy; in a recent poll of 500 psychiatrists, a medical journal found that a surprising 19% said that they approved of doctor-patient sex under some circumstances. The intimate relationships in therapy obviously make both...