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...sure as hell hope that the Central Intelligence Agency is a "badly shaken organization." If its "potential to serve the nation" involves illegally opening U.S. mail, spying on college campuses, infiltrating unpopular political groups, aiding and abetting the break-in of a psychiatrist's office, preventing the publication of a book for security reasons, murdering foreign leaders, and having its director lie to the Congress and the American public, then may the CIA forever continue to operate "below its potential...
...second book, TM (Delacorte; $8.95), by California Psychiatrist Harold Bloomfield and two coauthors, is a more academic treatment of the movement. The book, currently No. 3 on hard-cover lists, makes the basic argument that 20 minutes of meditation every morning and evening can reduce stress, lower blood pressure, and even cure psychosomatic illnesses...
...Giacalone and Provenzano. Late that morning, Hoffa stopped off at an airport bus company owned by a friend and chatted with four of the employees. Afterward, the four were unable to recall whom Hoffa had said he was going to meet. But when the Hoffa family arranged for a psychiatrist to put them under hypnosis, they remembered the names of Giacalone and Provenzano...
...crazy till Labor Day," complained Woody Allen in the movie Play It Again, Sam. Allen was one of them. "If I only knew where my damn analyst was," he wailed. "Where do they go every August?" The answer, of course, is that they go on vacation. Some psychiatrists say they choose August because Freud did, though others debunk that notion as too Freudian. "An August vacation," explains Dr. William Frosch, a Manhattan psychiatrist, "is built into your training from the start. Your analyst took August and so you start doing so yourself...
...minute their therapist leaves town. Explains Dr. Jacob Swartz of Boston: "It has to do with the mythology of the godlike physician, the fantasy that doctors are monklike hairshirt types who never need a vacation." Moreover, because a patient tends to establish a close parent-child relationship with his psychiatrist, he feels abandoned during his absence. Vacationing on Cape Cod last August, Manhattan Psychoanalyst David Mann received several phone calls from patients who had read about the novel Jaws. "They asked if I have been eaten by a shark. What they really wanted to know was whether I was coming...