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...psychiatric and therapeutic assault on sexually variant people is an ugly embarrassment to modern psychology. It is unnecessary to provide a lurid detailed account of past therapeutic attacks upon individual dignity. It is sufficient to state for the record that these forms of therapeutic aggression have ranged from psychic attack (i.e., deliberate attempts to increase guilt, lower self concept, etc.) through varieties of chemical and electrical aversive conditioning, to actual cases of brain surgery and legal castration. The record of these abuses of clinical psychology and psychiatry is thoroughly documented by Tripp and Nicholas Kittrie, author of The Right...
Does violence beget violence? Can one lurid crime flashed instantly across TV screens and explored in the pages of newspapers and magazines inspire other crimes? Those were questions for policemen, psychiatrists and journalists to ponder last week as a rash of savagery -a kind of season of rage-erupted across the U.S. Items...
...distinction between cathartic melodrama and historical events needs attention, however, if only because professional historians themselves have so much trouble respecting it. Slavery, so obvious in its lurid immorality, is apt to become especially distorted in the hands of American historians. "What is it about the black experience," asks Author Michael Novak, "that produces in so many good minds, black and white, a positive lust for corruptions of elementary sense?" The answers are probably 1) guilt and 2) ideology...
Writers like Frederick Law Olmsted, a Northerner who traveled through the South in the 1850s and wrote three books about Southern life, emphasized the lurid, brutal and simply inefficient aspects of slavery in order to promote the abolitionist cause. This was a Simon Legree approach to the subject-and there are aspects of such simplism in Roots...
Subtitled The Sexo-Political Diary of Two Adolescents, the paperback has been acclaimed-even by reviewers who disliked its lurid sex-for its fascinating insights into the political and social attitudes of Italy's far-left youth. Written by Lidia Ravera, 25, a journalist for a counterculture magazine called Muzak, and Marco Lombardo-Radice, 27, a psychologist who specializes in working with teenagers, Winged Pigs shows that today's students are rebelling against '60s rhetoric and radicalism. Although Rocco and Antonia belong to a student collective, Antonia confesses that she is "sick of all this revolutionary talk...