Word: nicholi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dropped out for psychiatric reasons, the school not only closes the door to a student who has as high a probability of completing his education as any other drop-out but may also be denying entrance to one of the more intellectually gifted," said Dr. Armand M. Nicholi Jr. in a 1970 report to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
Based on an in-depth study of nine motorcyclists, all college students, "most of whom were seen in intensive psychotherapy from one to three years," Nicholi has put together an outline of the motorcycle syndrome...
...Nicholi points out that certain aspects of the motorcycle's appeal-the thrusting of the rider's body into space, the intrusion of the deafening noise into other people's ears, the practice of keeping motorcycles in girl friends' garages-suggest genital or phallice elements, but says, "Clinical evidence proves such approaches to be limited in scope and far too superficial. . . Clinical material does make it clear, however, that the motorcycle serves as an extension of what the patient considers his masculine self...
...machine both pleases and terrifies, Nicholi said. "While fully conscious that the motorcycle provides pleasures of full expression of masculinity, even to the physical sense of orgasm, the patient also acutely senses its potential danger...
...Nicholi stressed that this syndrome may be very similar to the emotional situations of accident-prone automobile drivers and small aircraft pilots. "Because of their susceptibility to injury and death people suspected of suffering from this syndrome should always be given psychiatric evaluation," he said...