Word: masochists
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...Masochist, or Son of God? This relaxed gathering in Omaha last week was the latest meeting of a group of 38 men and women, mostly Methodist ministers and their wives who have been getting together about once a month for the past two years. They began when a church-going Omaha pediatrician named Dr. Charles Tompkins decided that while ministers and psychiatrists were trying to do much the same job, the psychiatrists were doing it better. He persuaded his medical-school classmate, Dr. G. Alexander ("Bob") Young Jr., who became a psychosomaticist after the war, to take on a group...
...easy to get his clerical couples talking about their aggressions, repressions and sexual problems. Even a little theology was kicked around-with some of the inanity that is often a byproduct of the mixture of Scripture and Freud. One meeting considered the question of whether Jesus Christ was a masochist. (Yes, said Bob Young: he denied himself marriage and made his life one long bid for suffering. No, said the ministers: men crucified him because they were not yet ready for the Son of God and his principle of love...
...Pandora and Flying Dutchman legends are merely fantasies. When interwoven, somewhat crudely, yet credibly, with a collection of themes like Greek ideas of tragedy, and masochist thoughts of self torture and sadism, they make a fantastic and thoroughly fascinating picture...
...bright April day in 1903, Dr. Henry Head of Cambridge University, England went to a surgeon friend and asked him to make a six-and-a-half-inch gash in his upper left arm. Dr. Head, a robust, 42-year-old neurologist, was no masochist. He wanted to learn the connection between nerves and pain. The surgeon severed two nerves in Dr. Head's arm, flexed it at the elbow, put it up in a splint, and left his hand free for testing...
...boyhood does not seem enough to hold all the tortures the film Edison undergoes. If this picture has any influence on the Edison legend, the inventor of electric light will be thought of in future years as an inspired masochist...