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Psychiatrists are also trained to give their patients plenty of advance notice of their departure. "If a patient falls apart when his doctor is away, the physician is not practicing psychiatry. He is instead a babysitter," says Dr. Jules Masserman of Chicago. "We strive to make patients self-sufficient." Some doctors arrange to have their practices covered or leave their phone numbers for emergencies. "Woody Allen is wrong," says Boston's Dr. Henry Friedman. "Everyone doesn't just depart and leave a group of neurotics marching around the city...
...easily become a talisman, a form of magic. Instead effacing the problems and working at them, people tend to sit back and hope for leadership. "Everybody is looking for somebody else to do something for them, to take the responsibility," says Nelson Rockefeller. According to Chicago Psychoanalyst Jules Masserman, "We never get over being children. We're always looking for a parent figure." In a democracy, leadership always requires collaboration between
...JULES MASSERMAN, U.S. psychoanalyst: Leaders must fulfill three functions -provide for the well-being of the led, provide a social organization in which people feel relatively secure, and provide them with one set of beliefs. People like Pasteur and Salk are leaders in the first sense. People like Gandhi and Confucius, on one hand, and Alexander, Caesar and Hitler on the other, are leaders in the second and perhaps the third sense. Jesus and Buddha belong in the third category alone. Perhaps the greatest leader of all times was Mohammed, who combined all three functions. To a lesser degree, Moses...
Cats in general have no reason to like Dr. Masserman: he has been engaged for some time in making them neurotic and then trying to cure them (TIME, June 8, 1942). In his latest experiment, using his standard method of confusing and frightening the animals by sudden blasts of air in their cages, he got a group of 16 cats into such a state of nerves that some of them even recoiled from a caged mouse. Then he gave them alcohol by injection or stomach tube. It quickly cured their jitters. They went back into their cages and, despite their...
...when the jag wore off, the jitters came back. Dr. Masserman then gave them, at mealtimes, a choice of plain milk or milk laced with 5% alcohol (in a cocktail glass). After a few days or weeks, most of the neurotic cats learned that the alcoholic milk made them feel better, invariably chose the cocktail. Dr. Masserman, who can put two & two together, deduced from this fact that the alcohol evidently removed their inhibitions and dulled their senses, making them less sensitive to shocks. He found that usually he could cure their taste for liquor only by curing their neuroses...