Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guilt & Sex. Dr. Menninger sees "value in group assemblages and some kind of formal ritual. As a lifelong Presbyterian, I am not a genuflector but I respect it as one of several simple maneuvers which have the same meaning of reverence . . . The mutual stimulation, reinforcement and encouragement that the individuals of a group receive from one another are well known to psychology, and the effect of a common relationship to a leader-pastor, rabbi or priest-has been carefully examined by many scientists, including Freud. Singing together has so great and obvious a value in furthering interpersonal linkages and enthusiasm...
...important reason for this position, says Menninger, is the common impression that psychiatry is down on all sense of guilt. Not so, argues Menninger. It is only false guilt-the patient's sense of sin about something he did not do-that psychoanalysis tries to remove...
...apparently assume that the Freudians are in favor of sexual promiscuity, but "this assumption is false, and its reiteration is a lie, a slander, a canard, and a misrepresentation of facts . . . Psychoanalysts do not favor promiscuity, do not encourage it, do not attempt to relieve any patient's guilt about it, and, in short, are no more to be considered immoral inciters to crime than anyone else who is doing his best to diminish the errors of mankind. Quite the reverse, most of them spend hours and hours attempting to relieve patients from the compulsive feeling of need...
...Abstinence from misconduct is not enough. Indifference to misconduct anywhere in the community is also guilt...
World's hero is Hayden Chart, 35, an architect who loses his pretty, nagging wife Caprice in an automobile accident for which he blames himself. Ridden by guilt (but not very hard) and by boredom with his old life in Newlife, Colo., Hayden sets out for Europe to recover his lost youth and to learn some of the things they never taught him at Amherst-the glory of the Middle Ages, for instance...