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...five-times-a-week treatment recommended by Freud. As a concession to economic reality, most American psychoanalysts see patients only once or twice a week, and some have begun to stress even more limited short-term therapy to cut expenses further. One sign of the times: Freudian Judd Marmor, a former president of the American Psychiatric Association, now recommends treatment limited to 20 or 30 sessions, with analysts abandoning their passive role to confront patients more and speed recovery. Marmor points out that even Freud complained that some psychoanalyses seemed interminable and made the patient emotionally dependent on the analyst...
After three months of treatment, Dr. Marmor told Columbia's directors that Begelman had been passing through a "temporary period" of self-destructive behavior but was now cured. A number of filmdom's most influential people, including Producer Ray Stark and Columbia Stars Barbra Streisand and Jack Nicholson, bombarded the directors with phone calls urging Begelman's reinstatement. Late last month the majority of directors favored bringing him back as studio president (although stripped of his corporate posts of director and senior vice president). Hirschfield, who originally wanted to rehire Begelman only as an independent producer, finally...
...questions raised by the case about the problems of homosexual relationships sharply divide psychiatrists, as well as psychologists. Are homosexuals any more given to aggression than the rest of the population? Most analysts think not. Says Judd Marmor, past president of the American Psychiatric Association: "I don't think there is anything inherent in homosexuality that makes them disturbed people...
Cabalists and Kooks. Whether any news organization's assassination coverage provides aid, comfort and inspiration to would-be assassins is also a matter of debate among psychiatrists. "These are lonely, alienated people who suddenly see an opportunity to become celebrities," says Dr. Judd Marmor, president of the American Psychiatric Association. "Publicity gives them an ego massage." Yet Psychiatrist Edward Stainbrook of the University of Southern California School of Medicine thinks press coverage has little to do with inciting potential assassins to pull the trigger. "They have much more personal, much more fantasy-like motivations than to call attention...
Giving LSD to someone without his informed consent opens the door to the "ruthless modification of people's minds," declared Dr. Judd Marmor, president of the American Psychiatric Association, after he heard the circumstances of the suicide of Biochemist Frank Olson (TIME, July 21). Even if done for security reasons, added Marmor, such experiments as those conducted by the CIA are unethical...