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...laugh in his face, but Dr. Josef Breuer (Larry Parks) describes a hysteric named Cecily (Susannah York) who relieved a symptom simply by talking about what caused it. Freud takes over the case. And so begins a vastly exciting drama of detection, in which the audience simultaneously sees a lurid mystery unfold and a momentous theory develop. Following his patient's lead, Freud successively discovers the therapeutic methods of catharsis, free association and dream analysis, finally derives from a heroic self-analysis his doctrine that most neurosis results from sexual conflict...
...Porter's acceptable story (he contributes two) he calls "The Devil Will Spank" which despite a lurid obsession with the imperfections in children's teeth and hair has its charming moments. I wish he would not pause so long to build up great tortuous heaps of detail before allowing his children to move; the story emerges as a photograph of huge, static, concrete set-pieces...
...results just summarized report factual evidence--subject's test reports or behavioral events, suicide or hospitalization. There are, of course, many papers describing lurid symptoms inferred by psychiatrists observing consciousness-expanding drug experiences. The psychiatric vocabulary is limited, ominous, and pathological. Gloomy diagnostic pronouncements by psychiatrists are such a routine symptom of our culture that we are prepared for that utopian mental health survey finding that one-third of us are psychotic, one-third neurotic and one-third cured or in treatment. But, when we ask subjects to describe their own reaction or when we count the objective behavioral events...
...Lurid Headliners. To the standard you-are-there-under-the-couch voyeurism, Robbins has added carefully observed studies of Mike Hammer's biff-bam psychopathology and Cash McCall's high-finance inside-dopesterism. But the ingredient in the mix that comes nearest to being Robbins' own is the gossip gimmick. He picks a public personage who has figured in lurid headlines, changes his name and a few unimportant details, and writes the novel around him-leaving him as difficult to identify as Liz Taylor in a false beard. In the case of The Carpetbaggers, although of course...
...misled by the lurid ads either. Summer-skin is neither torrid, frank nor provocative; it is in fact a puerile tease. Perhaps he has acted wisely in avoiding graphic scenes, since the one time he allows lovemaking to advance beyond a kiss, he loses sight of good taste entirely. Alcon's buxom nurse bursts in on her patient while he is drying himself after a shower. She grabs him, engulfs him with heavy snorts and slavering kisses, and finally pulls away the bath towel. Before the camera fades out, we are treated to a good, long vis-a-vis with...