Word: hysteroid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twice tried suicide. Mary's problem: she is extremely sensitive to rejection and lashes out at lovers for the smallest slight. That may not strike many doctors as a specific medical ailment. But Manhattan Psychiatrist Donald Klein diagnoses Mary's condition as a typical case of hysteroid dysphoria, a.k.a. "lovesickness." What's more, Klein thinks he has a cure...
...Hysteroid dysphoria (literally meaning "hysteria-like discomfort") was considered last year for inclusion in the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual, but was rejected for lack of evidence. Klein, director of research for the New York State Psychiatric Institute, is convinced that lovesickness is real enough. Says he: "These people, mostly women, are not true depressives or manic-depressives. They are so vulnerable that they are driven to repeat their love cycles over and over...
...Under Sidney Lumet's flashbackward direction, the acting proves a match for Gore Vidal's hysteroid script. Coburn emotes in a style that was once the exclusive province of Popeye. Lynn Redgrave, tricked out in a miniskirted bridal gown, looks rather appealingly like a marshmallow on toothpicks. But her accent, a mixture of two Birminghams?Alabama's and England's?must be heard to be disbelieved. Even Hooks ?normally a powerful and discreet actor?is lost in this raucous ménagerie à trois...
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