Word: neuroticisms
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Last week a hardy old chestnut, still to be cracked, was picked over for the umpteenth time. Picker was Dr. Nolan Don Carpentier Lewis, head of the New York State Psychiatric Institute in Manhattan. "I'm not interested in normal people," said bluff Dr. Lewis to a group of...
Still puzzled by this eternal dispute are historically minded laymen, who for every mad genius can cite a sweet-tempered family man like Einstein or Darwin, a sunny soul like Spinoza, an Olympian spirit like Goethe. They can complain, and do, that psychiatrists have never made clear the difference, if...
KNOCK, MURDERER, KNOCK!-Harriet Rutland-Harrison-Hilton ($2). Plenty baffled are Local Inspector Palk and a mysterious amateur sleuth when three guests in an English hydropathic hotel have their heads skewered with a steel knitting needle. Neurotic, crossgrained, gossipy characters are the tale's specialty.
About the cause & cure of drunkenness doctors know little. But recently many of them have swung around to the theory that every drunkard is a spineless neurotic, driven to drink by some psychic gnawing.
The main defect of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is that it is not tragic. Until the very end, Elizabeth's insistence that Essex can save his head merely by sending back her ring makes the drama seem as unreal as a schoolgirl's tiff, the...