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...Milan Psychiatrist Dino Origlia has concluded that all the amateur nudity on TV represents "the frustrated woman's revenge. These women still feel the need to assert themselves, to be the center of attention." Among other things, he says, the phenomenon shows "how we Italians have not yet overcome our sexual problems. This puts the clock back a century to keyhole sex." Other experts disagree. Says University of Trento Sociologist Gian Paolo Fabris: "Sex on the tube produces no guilt complexes. On the contrary, it creates an atmosphere of harmless complicity among the most repressed couples and can even...
Some observers believe that the smoking war cannot be understood without a bit of psychological insight. One is Manhattan Psychiatrist Samuel V. Dunkell, who sees the whole thing as struggle between macho and puritan impulses. Reformed smokers, he says, tend to be the most intractable opponents of the weed. "I've noticed when people stop smoking," he says, "that it's part of a calculated campaign of reform of the personality. They do it like a reformation in religious terms, and they feel that they have to convert others." A Tenafly, N.J., psychologist agrees...
...second trial on the grounds of insanity. Under Kansas law, a person acquitted of murder on psychiatric grounds is sent to the state security hospital at Larned until he has been pronounced cured. When hospital officials proposed to free Shaddy last June, a hearing was held; and a psychiatrist, psychologist and social worker testified that Shaddy was cured of any insanity and was not dangerous to anyone. Remarked Clinical Director George W. Getz: "I really don't know whether he was originally insane; but it doesn't matter. The jury found that he was, and he was assigned...
Film Society: Face to Face. Liv Ullman plays a psychiatrist in this Ingmar Bergman film, 112 Pendleton East...
Scientists do not know whether to snicker or be outraged, and most have been hesitant to dignify the theory by formally investigating it. Last month a team of intrepid researchers at Johns Hopkins University ventured into the area. Writing in the Archives of General Psychiatry, Psychologist John Shaffer and Psychiatrist Chester Schmidt reported that despite biorhythm's "wistful appeal," the theory just doesn't work...