Word: paranoiacs
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...emphasizes certain personality traits, but does not cause them." Because LSD acts as a catalyst, and because some individuals experience varied reactions to the drug, the setting in which the drug is taken becomes important to the individual reaction. Grof said that a laboratory environment tends to produce paranoiac reactions among patients treated with hallucinogenic drugs...
...Marat/Sade moves through different contexts of reality. It is a play about a play in which psychotics (Marat is played by a paranoiac who is in turn played by John Mckean) act out Sade's own recreation of the Revolution. Occasionally one can get lost somewhere in between the levels. To this, Bernstein has added a particular jolt by having William Liller, Master of Adams House, play Coulmier, Master of the Charenton asylum. Liller is a natural...
...fail because the fear "enlarges with the passage of time; the defense cannot alter the fixed moment of the performance." That failure induces a second-phase symptom: "the delusion that the audience is convening for an occasion of devastating ridicule and humiliation for the performer. This delusion is frankly paranoiac...
...source of physical comfort when its mother -its source of sustenance-is absent. The actor fears a hostile or unappreciative audience, but knows he must perform, that his hands and body are strictly choreographed; he is defenseless at the height of his anxiety. (As opposed to the paranoiac, who can try to flee his imagined dangers, or to the impostor, who can regulate the time and place of his performance.) So, backstage, the actor goes through various defenses beforehand-holding a cigarette perhaps, or squeezing a rubber ball, or simply wringing his hands. Aside from these manipulations, he may steel...
...HAPPENED IN BOSTON? by Russell H. Greenan. Witless German art experts, villainous Peruvian generals, paranoiac harpies, spying pigeons, nosy janitors and struggling artists are only part of the fantastic story that leads a deranged narrator and master painter into forgery, murder and an attempt to kill...