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...clammy conscience-ridden cell between worldly success and a proud otherworldly tradition. Stylistically, the novel is the nonstop confession of Monty (né Pendrid) Chatworth, a British-born American TV interviewer. He is something of an Anglo-American Alexander Portnoy, but with a crucial difference. Portnoy, draped over a psychiatrist's couch, complained that his lust was repugnant to his stern Hebraic morality and that his morality was repugnant to his sexual nature. Chatworth, slumped in his seat high above the Atlantic, confesses to his tape recorder ("Father Sony") that his English sense of proportion and Catholic asceticism...
...They can also understand Christianity in action. Calvary sponsors homes for separated wives and for children having trouble with parents, counseling for parents and vocational training. Smith points to an 85% recovery rate for youths with drug problems "once they find the Lord." Confirming the claim. Franklin Jones, a psychiatrist who heads the methadone program at nearby Brea Hospital says: "My own program is a failure. I came here because they're taking kids off heroin cold turkey. What's more, they stay...
John Dean is a one. A famous opera singer is a five. Manhattan Psychiatrist Herbert Spiegel, who invented the eye-roll scale in the first place, is in the middle, between a two and a three...
Spiegel knows that his theory will not be easily accepted. "I couldn't believe it at first myself," says the psychiatrist, who was trained as a neo-Freudian. "Now I've made a 180° turnaround. Today I believe that the major determination of who we are as people is pretty much decided when the sperm meets...
...walls are a nondescript orange and brown, the carpet is forgettable green, and the Spanish style furniture looks as if it had been borrowed from a Holiday Inn. A psychiatrist would have a hard start, in short, if he tried to analyze John Travolta from the way he has decorated his West Hollywood apartment...