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...story of Lisa's psychoanalysis is told by Freud himself. Thomas' imitation of a Freudian case history is uncannily accurate and convincing. It has the same whodunit intensity of the originals, the same bristling of symbols, the same gentle prodding to make the patient reveal more than she wants to know. Though Lisa resists him at many turns, Freud traces her problem back to a scene she accidentally stumbled across in childhood: a menage a trois involving her uncle, her mother and her aunt. Lisa does not accept her analyst's conclusion that she is a homosexual...
...Barkouras had ambitions to transform psychoanalytic theory. He developed a set of theories that castigate Freud's approach as too narrow to account for human behavior. The Barkouras doctrine integrates some Freudian concepts with ideas from philosophers like Plato and Heidegger. Two samples of Barkouras' insights: "Man is the eventfulness of life" and "Neurosis is attractive but health is irresistible." According to Barkouras, many mental patients are not ill, only confused. In 1976, at a convention of the Oklahoma State Psychological Association, some 1,000 professionals assembled to hear his theories, which were hailed by then Governor David...
...tanks that helped scramble the brain of the Lilly-like hero of the new sci-fi movie Altered States and turn him briefly, and improbably, into a pseudo ape. Tank centers have opened in most states, and a few therapists are using the tank as a successor to the Freudian couch, or in a search for ASC (altered states of consciousness, in the lingo) or OOB (out-of-the-body experiences). "What I'm experiencing is beyond the ape, beyond all that is pure consciousness," says Daniel. Though Daniel has never induced ape-consciousness, she says she once experienced...
...drop my bags, sort my mail and take a tank. It kind of gives me a stop." Other Daniel clients combine the tank with traditional talk therapy before and after the Epsom bath. Though few have followed his lead, Lilly used the tank as a supplement to his own Freudian therapy. "It carried the psychoanalytic method one step further," he said last week...
...Uses of Enchantment, Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim addresses those problems by examining the implications of fairy tales. Weary of bedtime books that ignore or sugar-coat the real world, Bettelheim ransacks the stories for Freudian subtexts. In his view the Oedipal drama plays itself out in the giants that Jack slays and in the demands of scheming stepmothers. "While it entertains the child," he concludes, "the fairy tale enlightens him about himself, and fosters his personality development." The psychologist does not neglect aesthetics: "Fairy tales are unique not only as a form of literature, but as works of art which...