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...question has dimensions that are both social and personal. In Freudian terms, the law is supposed to perform the function of the superego, policing the wild and violent id. The Beirut principle goes to work when the id takes over from the superego and puts on a blue uniform, when authority goes wild...
Psychiatrists were once the power brokers of mental health care. With full medical-school training and M.D.s after their names, they controlled the prestigious institutes of Freudian psychoanalysis. They determined whether patients would be committed to mental hospitals. And they had the exclusive right to prescribe mind-altering medications. But in the past several years psychologists, who have Ph.D.s but no medical school on their resumes, have been chipping away at the psychiatrists' domain...
...word "anal" gratuitously to describe people whom, at a normal school, would be described as "uptight." Unlike the typical Harvard student, I do not feel the need to demonstrate a facile knowledge of Freudian psychoanalytic theory at every possible opportunity by making a disturbingly graphic comparison between someone's behavior and a bodily orifice...
...with autistic children have been made to bear the burden and the guilt for the misfortune. Appropriately, the setting is Chicago, home of the late psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, whose judgmental views on the causes of autism hang over the Eberhardt family. Underscoring the theme is David Eberhardt, an orthodox Freudian psychiatrist. Mother Lainey navigates with less theory and more emotion -- no small undertaking with six children, including the autistic Randall...
Virtues outweighed by the vices? Is this a typographical error or a Freudian slip? No doubt most Harvard administrators see their jobs somewhat differently. I would suspect the former, since he offers his comments as a "defense" of tenure, but one never knows. Other errors of this kind are not infrequent...