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...night the body was found, 500 people from the boy's community packed into an auditorium in Cambridge. It is a measure of our progress as a civilization that the 500 did not get a rope and march on the police station. Instead, they listened to a local child psychiatrist, who told them, "It's beyond our comprehension." The boy's father, a fire fighter, said he hoped the men would be executed. My own mental sentence upon them (before I calmed down) included execution, but was more vivid and, so to speak, Islamic. Massachusetts has outlawed the death penalty...
...Nothing foreign is human to me" is the cry of the lynch mob. The mob does not wish to listen to the psychiatrist--or to the theologian, or to the lawyer. A civilized mind, on the other hand, has all four voices (mob, theology, psychiatry, law) speaking to it at once. That interior argument is confusing...
After angry parents condemned the group, Dr. Timothy F. Dugan, a psychiatrist at Cambridge Hospital, told the crowd that in his opinion, "NAMBLA does not equal homosexuality," he said...
...Deconstructing Harry and Tim in For Richer or Poorer. The normally reticent Woody Allen, who had never seen Alley until he chanced upon an old Cheers rerun while surfing the TV for a baseball game last year, says he knew immediately he wanted her to play his neurotic psychiatrist ex-wife. "The character called for a kind of earth motherly, uh, what do I mean, voluptuous, well, not exactly voluptuous"--he laughs here, realizing that he is probably asking for trouble with this description--"but a buxom earth-mother type. She delivered in spades. She's exceptional...
...novel psychological theories of the great (and imaginary) psychiatrist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler seem a bit further from the center of things here than they did in The Alienist. True, he affronts received opinion by postulating that a woman, because of her treatment in childhood, may be quite capable of murdering her own children and those of others. He helps trap the woman he has described. But for the trial to go forward he must declare her sane, a judgment that would have seemed as mushy at the beginning of the Freudian era as it does now. For a long stretch...