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...Angeles Psychoanalyst Martin Grotjahn thinks he knows the cause of the malady. Says he: "People who have strong needs to love or fight are more prone to writer's block." Most psychiatrists believe that, just as there is no single explanation for murder or theft, there is no one cause for writer's block. But Grotjahn, who discusses the problem in his book Beyond Laughter, believes hostility is the fundamental reason. Writing is an aggressive demand for attention. It can be blocked when a writer projects his anger onto reviewers and readers. "It's the fear...
...menace of the psychotic killer is the more frightening because he may seem a model citizen until he goes berserk. Many of them "have a feeling that there is a demon within themselves," says Los Angeles Clinical Psychiatrist Martin Grotjahn, "and they try to kill the demon by model behavior." Sensing aggressive impulses that frighten them, adds a Manhattan analyst, "they live the opposite of what they feel. They become gentle, very mild, extremely nice people, and often show a compulsive need to be perfectionistic," which is one reason why people can always be found to describe a murderer...
...called horror movies and their influence on adolescents, Variety pointed out, in its most scholarly diction, that many psychiatrists disagree with "that element of the public which ascribes juve delinquency to crime pix and the harmful effect of horror pix on the young mind." Among the dissenters: Dr. Martin Grotjahn, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, who thinks that / Was a Teenage Werewolf, Blood of Dracula, etc. provide a means of "self-administered psychiatric therapy for America's adolescents.'' His cathartic argument: "Certain childhood anxieties never die. Fear...
...League. No such book has ever before been printed in the U. S., nor made available, because the Government has forbidden the importation from England of the only other book of its kind in English, Marie Carmichael Slopes's Contraception: its Theory, History and Practice. In German Dr. Alfred Grotjahn, professor of social hygiene at the University of Berlin, has published two monumental books on the subject, but it is almost impossible to find copies of them...
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