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When he was allowed to visit the U.S. in 1977, he sent word to Washington, B.C., Psychiatrist Walter Reich that he wanted a second opinion from American doctors. His motives: to clear his name, and raise enough of a hue and cry that he would not be confined again...
...Grigorenko (Q. "Why did you [engage in dissident acts] if you thought you might be shot?" A. "What's the sense of living one extra year if you continue in the fraud of not facing things?"). Though A.P.A. President-elect Stone sent his evaluation on to Soviet Psychiatrist Andrei Snezhnevsky, who had encouraged the American tests, the findings are not likely to end Soviet psychiatric abuses. Snezhnevsky dismissed the results as a "misdiagnosis," a consequence of "not knowing all the features of community life in [Grigorenko's] native land...
White did not plead not guilty by reason of insanity, largely because no psychiatrist would say that he was sufficiently deranged. Schmidt asked the jury to find that White's "diminished mental capacity" left him unable to premeditate, deliberate, or harbor malice, the standards for first degree murder. One defense expert, Dr. Jerry Jones, told the jury that what White suffered from was "not the blues, what you and I call being depressed." It was genetically caused melancholia, "as if the world were viewed through black glasses." Another defense doctor refused to elevate White's condition...
...considering a career in cooking. Steve and Mary Stover treated each other to a Hazan class as a tenth-wedding-anniversary present. Several students say they regard cooking as a form of therapy. Indeed, one student suffering "a late 20s crisis" was actually referred to the school by her psychiatrist. A young real estate man, Steve Wittmann, became interested in sauces when he was living and studying in Florence and has been an ardent admirer of la buona cucina ever since. One tyro, the sixtyish wife of a retired surgeon, confesses that she had never eaten an artichoke before signing...
...projected on the page like shadow puppets. The unnamed husband of Elizabeth muses on the genteel oppressions of his native Boston. Later he is mentioned as a man who reads and writes all day, has "the preoccupied look of a secret agent" and free-associates about Goethe with his psychiatrist. The author seems to have measured elements of Lowell very carefully, knowing that his specific gravity could easily upset the delicate balance of her fiction...