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...emotionally unstable mother who was to die in a mental institute, and later shuttled from foster homes to an arranged teenage marriage, Norma Jeane was to spend the rest of her life in search of the paternal love she never got. Steinem points a critical feminist finger at the Freudian psychoanalysts who could not help Monroe solve her problems because of the inherent sexism of Freud's theories. As a last resort, they prescribed pills, a move which proved lethal...
...Broadway's mainstay. Staged with varying degrees of artistry, the ill-fated shows shared one disabling presumption: musicals must be "about" something beyond melody and romance. Rags tried to survey the immigrant experience, Honky Tonk Nights blended music hall with racial conflict, Raggedy Ann was a dying girl's Freudian nightmare, and Into the Light asked whether the Shroud of Turin is Jesus Christ's burial cloth. All suffocated under the weight of their ambition...
Hemingway should be spared further Freudian autopsy. He was a masterpiece of contradiction. Every element in him had a blood feud with its opposite. He cherished his friends and he treacherously turned on them (on Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Scott Fitzgerald and many others). He adored women and he hated them. His literary program was to write the brutal truth, and yet he was sometimes a liar and a fraud. He was profoundly creative and profoundly destructive. He had a spontaneous gift of life. He enjoyed (that is the word) a lifelong relationship with death. He resolved all contradictions...
...Unlike Freudian treatment, which is psychodynamic and concerned with the genesis of unconscious conflict, the two talk therapies are straight-from-the- shoulder approaches dealing with the patient's current problems. Cognitive behavior therapy, the creation of Psychiatrist Aaron Beck, assumes that depression is the result of disordered patterns of thinking and tries to get patients to drop unrealistically negative views. Interpersonal psychotherapy, developed by the New Haven-Boston Collaborative Depression Project, attempts to reassure patients and improve their relationships...
...inactive high-tension wire. The basic elements are conventional: an ex-con who wants to go straight, a fallen woman redeemed by love, moral corruption that goes unnoticed by police, schemes and counterschemes for revenge, deluded invocations to chivalry and honor among thieves. The end game is enlivened by Freudian twists, but the greatest strengths are Gores' skillful crosscutting, swift pace and mastery of tone. Because his breakneck intensity never falters, the reader is unlikely to pause and notice the implausibilities of the plot...