Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet Psychiatrist Isaac Goldberg could well understand his colleagues' doubts, but he insisted that he really did have an epileptic patient who could read ordinary print with her fingertips. To prove it, he had Rosa Kuleshova, 22, admitted to the Sverdlov Clinic for Nervous Disorders. There before a skeptical audience, Dr. Goldberg blindfolded Rosa and had the blindfold checked. Then Rosa opened a book at random, passed the fingertips of her right hand lightly over the page, and fluently read the text aloud. She did the same with a newspaper. Handed a snapshot, Rosa stroked the surface and said...
Freud. Director John Huston has turned out an intense, intelligent cinemonograph on the early struggles of the papa of psychiatry. Montgomery Clift does fairly well as Freud, but sometimes looks more like a patient than a psychiatrist...
Freud. Director John Huston has turned out an intense, intelligent cinemonograph on the early struggles of the Viennese papa of psychiatry. Montgomery Clift does fairly well as Freud, but sometimes looks more like a patient than a psychiatrist. Susannah York plays a hysteric...
...represented a form of asceticism resembling a St. Augustine-like renunciation of riches and vows of poverty. There seemed to be a growing feeling that we had had it 'too good too long,' and that the time had come to pay the price." To the analytic-minded psychiatrist, there seems to have been a "mild but ubiquitous emotional depression, resulting from a feeling of guilt prevalent in the consumption-minded middle class, which had profited most from the postwar income revolution...
...have been touched by Freud's great work-some by taking psychiatric treatment, many by observing its effects in others, many more by living in a cultural climate fraught with Freudian ideas. Familiarity may breed some contempt: the film at times seems quaintly elementary. Furthermore, no competent modern psychiatrist accepts the theory that most neuroses take a sexual provenance. Freud, like Columbus, mistook the new world he discovered for something it was not. Nevertheless, it was Freud who saw the way when all the world was blind, and who followed it where all men feared to go. This picture...