Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What on earth, or over it, makes a man want to fly? There must be cogent reasons, and not all as lyrical as Icarus'. One answer has been given by the Army Air Forces' Colonel R. C. Anderson, who during the war had an unexcelled psychiatrist's-eye view as chief of neuropsychiatry at Randolph Field's School of Aviation Medicine. He offered his diagnosis before the Aero Medical Convention in Chicago. Some highlights...
...also sees, through an open window, its brutal & bloody consequences. When the husband (Frank Latimore) finally arrives, full of love and yearning, he finds his wife rigid and popeyed from fright. Unable to talk, unable to move, she is obviously a serious mental case, an ideal subject for Eminent Psychiatrist Vincent Price, who soon bustles up, brisk and professional...
What it all means, in terms of U.S. culture and Hollywood's secret soul, should make a good study for a real psychiatrist...
John told the psychiatrist all about "the wasteland" in which he and his family lived. Old Man Braunowitz, a Russian immigrant, was a grimy, scholarly, embittered man, who had nagged his simple wife into animal dullness and shirked his responsibilities as a father. Strong-willed daughter Deborah had backed up her mother and made herself the "father" of the family-and a Lesbian to boot. Daughter Rosannah had dutifully earned her living by serving in bars-which, to John's tortured, hypersensitive imagination, meant that she dallied with the barflies. Daughter Sarah had fled into the arms...
Fadeaway Father. At first, the psychiatrist seemed to John to be just a pleasantly "anonymous" object. Later, he seemed like the real father John had always wanted. At last, he just seemed to fade away-and so did John Brown, the spineless misfit who drank too much, walked with a cringing stoop and wanted the girl he loved to be his mother rather than his wife. Into John Brown's shoes stepped self-confident Jake Braunowitz, who no longer hated his family, because he understood their desperate struggle, who no longer hated the world, because he believed that...