Word: neuroticisms
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The title story opens with a "baby" lying in bed. He is 19 years old, and so fat that he has "groups of toes like uncooked sausages." Baby lives with his neurotic Mom; they rove from city to city, endlessly drowning their despondency in capsules of phenobarbital. The Sleep describes...
The U.S., said Dr. May, has fallen particular prey to "Western man's preoccupation with mechanistic methods, his apotheosis of technique." For technique, worshiped as a way of controlling nature, has led to "the corollary need to see human personality as an object of control like the rest of...
Existentialism is not used directly as a philosophy in helping patients, says May, but serves as a foundation for psychologists to construct a broader base for their science and thus to understand man more intimately. In his theoretical view, this means introducing a new dimension-ontology. But to the patient...
But by the 1930s, May holds, there was not so much of this sex-based anxiety, especially in the U.S., and neurotic anxiety then seemed to stem mainly from repressed hostility. Since World War II, Dr. May contends, there has been another change: most of the anxiety that he sees...
Two for the Seesaw. Two lonely people by New York's late and early light, too much in love-and a little too neurotic-to say good night. The entire cast: Dana Andrews and Anne Bancroft.