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Cora Dulz is a psychiatrist who needs her head examined. She is sexually frustrated and has just lost two patients to suicide. What's more, she's infatuated with a new patient, Stanislaus Nagy, a disturbing young man who's fixated on Maria Callas. As this engagingly surreal short novel unfolds, the cagey Nagy claims to be the Devil, who apparently once inhabited Callas' poodle. Dulz's infatuation is propelled into obsession, and this can only lead to a bizarre denouement, in which, of course, there's hell...
...this psych-fi chiller, Timothy Findley's choice of psychiatrist is not the over-familiar Sigmund Freud but his rival Carl Jung, herald of the theory of collective unconscious. Jung's fictive patient, known as Pilgrim, is an X-Filer's dream and an HMO's nightmare: every time he dies, he comes back to life. Pilgrim is obviously a dramatization of Jung's doctrines. Too obviously. The action is bracketed by the 1912 sinking of the Titanic and the first day of World War I in 1914, and the apocalyptic deep-think brings to mind Peter DeVries' remark about...
...around? Maybe not, if Chase learned something from all those analyst sessions. "Michael Corleone had always been a reluctant gangster. 'I try to get out, and they pull me back in.' Well, why do you let them?" Chase says with a chuckle. "Why don't you go to a psychiatrist? Why don't you get some therapy...
...addition to building a student center and offering more social activities, the department has recently employed a private psychiatrist, Edward M. Hallowell, clinical instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), to give chemistry graduate students both practical and emotional advice...
Anderson said the department secured the psychiatrist's services in part because its members felt University resources open to all graduate students are not necessarily completely confidential...