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Moving from carnival to couch, Analyst Balint holds that ocnophilia goes with self-effacement, anxiety-proneness and fear of open spaces, while philobatism may lead to self-contained detachment, paranoid attitudes and claustrophobia. The ocnophil is not necessarily more inhibited; while his inhibitions are public, the philobat's are mostly private-often he is unaware of them. And in his more restrained way, the ocnophil may get as much real satisfaction out of life. For while the philobat's enjoyment is more obvious and open, "this hides the price...
...course, ruthless, utterly cynical, a fluent liar, and (in the opinion of some psychiatrists) a paranoid personality. And yet "there was to this ogreish creature a kind of innocence that may be one of the clues to his triumphs and his failures." Innocence because, as Rovere sees it, he never seriously believed in his own charges, his own cause, so that even his hatred was pretense. During Committee hearings, he could turn on his rage at will and stage a tantrum walkout just in time to get to the men's room. "McCarthy, though a demon himself...
...government than one whose activities and plans of action are patently dangerous and easily outlawed. Since Luthuli has never advocted "Africa for the Africans" and has used non-violent resistence as a political weapon, he is difficult to accuse of treasonous activity--unless one pushes this concept to truly paranoid extremes. Like the recent de-integrating of four universities in South Africa, this move by the government represents an arbitrary limiting of intellectual activity rarely found outside of totalitarian countries...
...really 85 (72, he claims) and "seeks to be restored to the tyrannical and despotic power he asserted over me when we were married," Gloria, herself a onetime child-custody pawn, disclosed that she once warned Stokie in a letter: "I do not want my boys exposed to your paranoid attitudes." In rejoinder, the maestro tartly accused Gloria of absentee motherism, late to bed and late to rise, traipsing out for dinner, often missing lunch with the children because she "makes morning visits to her psychiatrist and returns home...
...Joseph Satten offered the American Psychiatric Association an explanation of a phenomenon that has long baffled both courts and psychiatrists. Most murderers fall into one of two neat classes: the legally sane, who have an understandable motive such as robbery, and the legally insane, such as the paranoid who kills his imagined persecutor. But now and then there appears a third type -the man who kills without apparent motive, yet appears sane before and after the crime...