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Those attitudes, according to forensic psychiatrist Eric Goldsmith, are "the usual combination" for volunteers. Murderers can be astonishingly sensitive to criticism, and offering to die can be seen as an effective shield from the accusations of society or the pangs of conscience. Ross's public defenders have told him that he could have an additional 5 to 10 years of appeals left and that his mental instability might win him commutation to life without parole. But for Ross, who wept at how few responses his more than 200 goodbye letters to pen pals and supporters elicited, the prospect...
...news. Throughout those changes, Coke was always there, a misty memory from childhood, a rock of ages. "Certain things in our psychological environment have to stay constant because we're in such a changing world," says Dr. Bert Pepper (no relation to the soft drink), a New York City psychiatrist. "Each of us has our favorite object of constancy. Many Americans have picked Coke." Adds Pepper: "People felt outraged and ripped off because there was an implicit and explicit contract between the Coke drinker and the company. There was unilateral abrogation of that contract when the company changed the formula...
...these books and essays were being written, there were other diverse signs that the country was ready to look directly at the Bomb. Surveys begun in 1978 by John Mack, a psychiatrist at the Harvard Medical School, found that large percentages of schoolchildren experience a high degree of fear about impending nuclear war. Harvard's Robert Coles, the author of Children of Crisis, disputes such findings with research of his own. In Coles' studies the only children who worried inordinately about the Bomb were those whose parents were directly involved with antinuclear movements...
Mayhem ensues when one perverted English psychiatrist, the secretary he tries to seduce, his nymphomaniac wife, a hotel page, a self-assured government official, and a police sergeant find themselves together at a psychiatric ward, caught in a web of hidden agendas, lies, and gender disguises. As if the plot contrivances weren’t confounding enough, many of the plays’ absurd lines seem to make no sense at all, only becoming relevant at the show’s revelatory (and morally disquieting...
...hand, Oskar’s post-Sept. 11 life centers around trying to make sense of what has happened: imagining fantastic life-saving devices, taking days off from school, meeting with a psychiatrist, and scouring New York City for traces of his father. And Oskar is not unique in focusing on the tragedy; realities, such as the gaping hole where the towers once stood and the huge number of people personally affected, enforce its claim to universality...