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Bias. In fact, says Boston Psychoanalyst Helen Tartakoff, most reputable psychiatrists measure the emotional strength of men and women by a single standard. She adds: "I have never been therapeutically successful with a woman patient unless she became capable of developing her talents and interests outside her marriage and family. I don't think she is a really mature person until she can do this." Jane Thayer, a Washington, D.C., clinical psychologist, believes that male therapists promote the maturing process by actively encouraging "a get up and stand on your own two feet" attitude in female patients and refusing...
...Levin, a 71 -year-old psychiatrist, objected to the fact that the plot turned on what he called an "an atomical absurdity." Worse, he said, the movie would strengthen the Women's Lib thesis that anything other than a clitoral orgasm is a male myth. "I think that vaginal orgasm is superior to the clitoral," Dr. Levin announced...
...survive after near annihilation is to acquire a special knowledge of death that transforms life forever after. So believes Robert Jay Lifton, the Yale psychiatrist who titled his famed 1967 study of the Hiroshima survivors Death in Life. Few behavioral scientists have studied plane-crash survivors; after all, there have not been very many. But Lifton and some of his colleagues believe that the men and women who have lived through air disasters have something in common with those who emerged alive from the atomic holocaust...
Some survivors may not fully realize for months that they have been in an accident. A week after the crash near Chicago's Midway Airport last month, Psychiatrist Edward Stein of the University of Chicago Medical School interviewed eight survivors. "No one," he says, "was overwhelmed by anxiety," though "there were bad dreams" and "a great deal of psychic denial" of the threat of death. "It's like the pupil, which contracts in bright light to avoid being overstimulated. This is good, healthy adaptiveness," Stein explains, adding, "The question is, will the pupil dilate again in the dark...
...other cases, a feeling of invulnerability precedes survival and can produce a cavalier attitude in the midst of danger. John Rauen Jr., a former Marine who survived World War II combat, reports that "I knew we were going to crash, but I didn't expect to die." Psychiatrist Stein calls this mental invincibility "the silver bullet reaction"-the conviction that "nothing can get me but a silver bullet...