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...difficulty in diagnosing pathological narcissism is that the whole culture has turned in a narcissistic direction. Social Critic Tom Wolfe calls the '70s the "Me decade." Author Peter Marin describes the swing away from social concerns toward development of the self as "the new narcissism." Marin cites therapists as part of the problem: "The trend in therapy is toward the deification of the isolated self...
...Marin, writing in Harper's, blames the so-called humanistic psychologies and disciplines, including gestalt, est, Arica and the "self-realization" theories of Abraham Maslow. Marin got some support last week at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Charles Hampden-Turner, president-elect of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, agreed that the humanistic movement "is top-heavy on the side of self-concern. I think that is self-defeating. [You seek] to become one with the universe, but instead, you isolate yourself." Transactional Analyst Barton Knapp of Philadelphia's Laurel Institute added that...
...Robert Barry and Germany's Hanne Darboven, among others, at Leo Castelli, 4 E. 77th St.) through "classical" modernism (Jules Olitski and other color-field artists at Knoedler Contemporary Art (19 E. 70th St.) to a diverting collection of views of New York by American artists (John Marin, Reginald Marsh, Guy Pène du Bois at the Hammer Galleries, 51 E. 57th...
...that security has been mustered every working day for the past 15 months in the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, where the longest trial in California history is expected to go to the jury next week. The case involves the so-called San Quentin Six,* who are accused of taking part in a 1971 prison breakout attempt that left Black Militant Convict George Jackson dead, along with three guards and two inmate trusties. Their trial may well mark the final effort to exorcize the specter of Jackson from the Marin courthouse. In 1970 the same building...
...Tabs. All of this has cost state taxpayers $1.6 million to date, and Marin County Auditor-Controller Michael Mitchell figures the tally will hit $2 million before the last bills are in-not including appeals if there are convictions. Some items in that total: $65,000 in jury fees, $200,000 for reporting and transcribing, $205,108 for the D.A., $96,477 for the public defender and as yet unspecified costs for four additional outside defense attorneys...