Word: neuroticisms
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In England, something had been lost by the war. While Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence attempted to find the essence of an England that was fearfully "contemplating its own past and conscious of its threatened nature," Spender himself was fighting a political and intellectual conservatism that had bred a...
Allan Arbus is overly dramatic and gives the weakest performance in the production as the writer-director. He's supposed to be a starry-eyed idealist but looks more like a high-strung neurotic, and he fails to convey the seriousness of his own dramatic message.
"For years," Dr. Silverman says, "we've been stuck on the question of whether illness is emotionally or physically caused. It's caused by the interaction, and the clues are psychological as well as physical." When a person develops "critical stress" and cannot cope, he says, either the...
Seriously disturbed patients in Japanese mental hospitals generally receive similar kinds of treatment to those offered in the U.S. But the 3,000 Japanese who are qualified psychiatrists usually prescribe tranquilizers for patients who display neurotic or obsessive behavior, instead of probing for the root of the trouble.
Death Wish is ugly not only because of its contentions but because it has the utter gracelessness of a polemic. Director Michael Winner presents what one can only surmise is his neurotic view, and his facile efforts to render the film in an "artistic" way only make it uglier. Charles...