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Crooked Seams. After writing Lady Oracle, Margaret Atwood, like Joan, may have wondered whether she "should have taken it to a psychiatrist instead of a publisher." Fortunately, she did not. For if Atwood's last novel, Surfacing, was her basic black dress of a novel - trim, taut and meticulously crafted - then Lady Oracle is successful motley, a striking work made out of bright patches with all the crooked seams showing...
These fictional passengers are afflicted by the hijackee syndrome. Unlike the passenger-victims who react with understandable outrage at being kidnaped, bullied and threatened, there always seem to be those who emerge from the shattering experience burbling warm praise for the captors. In fact, says Psychiatrist David G. Hubbard, director of the Aberrant Behavior Center in Dallas, "It is as common as dirt...
...woman is obliged to smooth over all social irritations with good manners and a smile. Literary Critic Josephine Hendin, writing about the late Georgia Novelist Flannery O'Connor, speaks of a Southern "politeness that engulfs every other emotion." "No matter how bad an evening has been," says Atlanta Psychiatrist Alfred Messer, a native of New Jersey, "Southern women never fail to say, 'Y'all come back and see us again soon' when they might want to say, 'Drop dead.' " Critic Haskell recalls having to take "sort of the Anita Loos approach" to society...
Hudson also tried seeing a psychiatrist at the University Health Services, but that didn't prove to be much help. "I had one appointment, but I just didn't feel comfortable with the whole thing and never went back. Maybe I wasn't ready for it, or didn't go into it with a broad enough outlook, but in any case, seeing a psychiatrist didn't work out." She did finish out the semester, although she received an unsatisfactory in her tutorial, and during reading period she began making plans for her leave of absence...
...consultation for those students considering leaves, whose problems either impair academic performance or are specifically academic in character. Those whose crises are of a purely personal nature and are not facing academic difficulties are generally referred elsewhere, usually to the University Health Services (UHS) for consultation with a psychiatrist, according to Kiyo Morimoto, the associate director of the bureau...