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With these words, a 23-year-old Harvard graduate student told his psychiatrist why he had just bought his third motorcycle, despite having suffered serious injuries in two cycle accidents during the previous six months. Luckily, his psychiatrist was Harvard Medical School's Armand M. Nicholi II, who had been studying and treating college cyclists for years. From the way the young man talked about his machine, Nicholi easily concluded that his patient was the victim of a hitherto unrecognized emotional ailment: the motorcycle syndrome...
...However, Nicholi said, although black students tend to drop out more often in general, they drop out less often for psychiatric disorders-the conflict is more likely to be environmental rather than personal...
...finds himself in a bind," Nicholi said of the potential dropout. "He can no longer tolerate the loneliness of his work; neither can he tolerate the competitive anxiety provoked by close contact with colleagues. He withdraws into himself. His work rapidly deteriorates. He becomes overwhelmed with guilt and despair... A paralyzing state of depression ensues and leaving college appears the only recourse that promises relief...
Before reading your October 13th article by Dr. Armand M. Nicholi on the "Motorcycle Syndrome," I thought I was a relatively well-adjusted individual. Now I realize that my outwardly confident, competitive behavior is, in fact, a cover-up for deep-seated cyclogical problems...
Hopefully, Dr. Nicholi can be encouraged to expand on his critical analysis, offering insights into other forms of transportation. For example, what is the significance of my also driving a sportscar? What about my sailboat (now that I think of it, the mast is certainly quite phallic)? What permanent damage to my personality might be caused by my riding the MBTA...