Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are inner conflicts in a mood that rejects politics-as-usual, yearns for something new but also seeks a quiescent normality. Yet some generalizations can be drawn about which candidates so far have benefited most from the emerging mood...
...described her work in a recently published book called The Gift of Inner Healing (Word Books; $4.95). In it she tells about Mary Anne, whose marriage she saved, Jeff, who had trouble relating to women and Jody, who came to her because he was troubled about his homosexuality. Feeling that he needed to identify with a father figure during his childhood, Stapleton led him back through his memories to the time he was six years old, sitting in his mother's kitchen. "Now the doorbell rings. Go to the door and open it," Stapleton directed. "Who's going...
...White House, apparently didn't have much to add. She needed a new angle, something no one else had, and eventually settled on psychology. While not a professional psychologist, Kearns had had extensive conversations with Johnson in Texas, conservations in which he told all about his deepest inner feelings. In a series of heart-to-heart talks in which he would climb into her bed early in the morning (she had gotten out of bed before he got in, by the way), the old man revealed his innermost secret: he loved his mother...
...Rockefellers is an ambitious book. It seeks not only to describe the psychological inner workings of one extremely complex family, and not only to recount the fortunes of that family. Beyond that, seeing the family's story as the story of big capitalism in America, it seeks to tell that story too. A task that ambitious is practically impossible to carry out, and Collier and Horowitz are weakest at drawing all the necessary connections such a complicated scheme entails...
Though the children have had a great deal of exposure to education, athletics and the arts, they were not enouraged to think independently or to express their own feelings. Instead of relying on their own inner resources or autonomous decisions, they behaved with complete compliance to authority. When puberty demanded independence of the obedient anorexic child, he turned, Bruch writes, "to indiscriminate negativism...