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...LAING tells of a young girl, classified insane, who is examined by the well-known psychiatrist Kraepelin. He tries to stop her movements; he stands in front of her with arms outspread; he pricks her with a needle--all common tests for the reactions of the mentally ill. But if we take Kraepelin's acts out of the context of the clinical exam as experienced and defined by him, "how extraordinary they...
Ehrlichman is dogged by legal problems and debts. He is appealing sentences, which could run up to eight years, for perjury, for authorizing the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, for his role in the Watergate coverup; he faces half a dozen civil cases over the denial of civil rights of individuals. He has been disbarred. He owes his lawyers about $350,000. Still, he appeared tanned and relaxed last week and much like the John Ehrlichman of old. He refused to talk about the details of the Watergate case, said he has not seen...
Time to Plan. Political speculators are forewarned not to think that the President's lady, who years ago saw a psychiatrist as a consequence of the loneliness of political wifedom, would now encourage a decision to bow out. "It's a completely different world," she declares with enthusiasm. "I see more of Jerry than I ever did before. And there's so much I want to do to build interest in all of the performing arts, and for retarded citizens. Another four years would give time to plan so much more...
Equus takes place in the present in Rokeby Psychiatric Hospital in Southern Egland. The child psychiatrist, Martin Dysart (Brian Bedford) is asked by the local magistrate, Heather Salomon (Sheila Smith) to take on an unusual case: a disturbed young man who was brought to her court for commiting a crime less horrible in its consequences than in its explanation, a crime that is in one sense an unspeakable mystery. Alan Strang (Dai Bradley), the boy, arrives at the hospital in a state of extreme catatonia, singing advertising jingles or watching television during the day and living in a world...
...pauses more between lines, he seems always ill at ease as if the questions Alan's psychosis present are more immediate and perplexing. And although I still believe that Shaffer didn't give these questions about the need for some form of sustained myth in this world and the psychiatrist's role as quelcher of individuality enough development--subsumed by the immediate action--Bedford succeeds as much as possible in raising them up above the action...