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...words are spoken by Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist in a rural English hospital, and they are directed to Alan Strang, his 17-year-old patient who, at the moment, is under hypnosis. Alan has been institutionalized after blinding six horses one night in the stable where he works on weekends. Equus is the imaginary horse god, the product of Alan's tangled mind and troubled childhood and it is Dysart's task to exorcise it from him. The question on which Peter Shaffer's play turns is, simply, does Dysart want...
According to Dr. James Spar, geriatric psychiatrist, Reagan's slow response time "is the kind of forgetfulness that when you reach back for a fact, it isn't there. But 20 minutes later, it comes back to you." Unfortunately, by that time the war is over...
...threatening to unravel, and in the Moscow zoo the panda is either pregnant or dying. At home in Glasgow, having finished her Christmas shoplifting, Disc Jockey Alan Bird's girlfriend of four years walks out on him in the middle of decorating the tree. His dentist hurts, a psychiatrist is uncomprehending, and both sides in the territorial war between Mr. Bunny and McCool's, mobile purveyors of ice cream, keep damaging his car to register displeasure at his peacemaking efforts. In short, it is a fairly typical, that is to say awful, Yuletide season, and Comfort...
...pondered it was Brown President Howard Swearer. The goal of dramatizing the nuclear danger had been met, he said, but Brown would not purchase cyanide. But not everyone thought the vote was a clear advance for nuclear awareness. Child Psychiatrist Robert Coles of the Harvard Medical School reported the reaction of a blue-collar worker in Lynn, Mass., who said, "These spoiled rich kids. Everyone else is going to suffer a slow death, and they want a quick...
...recently released from a private psychiatric hospital, fired three bullets into her sleeping boyfriend, critically wounding him. She too told the police that The Burning Bed had inspired her act. Nevertheless, most experts absolved the show, arguing that Brandt and Thompson might have attacked their mates anyway. Said UCLA Psychiatrist Louis J. West: "Millions of people saw it, and they didn't burn their spouses...