Word: psychiatrists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Good Man, Charlie Brown. Poor put-upon Charlie Brown, along with his high-flying dog, underpaid psychiatrist and blanket-carrying buddy, makes his appearance in a fast-paced, well-acted production at Winthrop House. In the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, with performances Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday...
...There is no great wave of self-assurance sweeping this nation," writes Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles, "and it is especially hard these days even for psychiatrists to draw a firm line between the sensibly troubled and those beside themselves for utterly irrational reasons...
...insane. Now that confidence is vanishing, and the decade of the '60s did much to erode it. Nations and societies went crazy, as they had in the past, but this time they were collectively judged to be abnormal: society was blamed, not its members or its leaders. British Psychiatrist R.D. Laing took that view a step further, enunciating that in a crazy world even wildly abnormal personal behavior might be considered sane...
...cynical for a society to reward a man with the Congressional Medal of Honor for doing what it has taught him was evil and abhorrent -murdering other human beings. Cole's medal winner, Dale Jackson (Howard E. Rollins Jr.), a black Viet Nam hero, has cracked up. A psychiatrist (David Clennon) tries to rid Jackson of his survival guilt complex. Why did he live and his buddies die? The notion that survival can be worse than death is probably the weakest proposition in the play. However, the two principals are admirable. Wary, arrogant, streetwise, tormented, Rollins' Jackson makes...
Like much of Bergman's canon, Face to Face is about an emotional quest and a spiritual trial. It concerns Dr. Jenny Isaksson, a Swedish psychiatrist who is enduring the same sort of crisis she is trained to cure. Her husband is off in the U.S. at a convention. Her daughter is away at summer camp. Jenny, for company, moves in with her grandparents, who have decorated her room with all the furnishings of her childhood. Instead of reassuring her, the trappings of girlhood seem to hurry Jenny back to a period of intense vulnerability. She is haunted...