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...SLEW of intriguing questions left unanswered even after the finalstring-tying pages of The Terminal Man. Who will hire author Michael Crichton to write the screenplay? Who will direct it? And most intriguing of all, who will star as the terminal man, and who will play the lady psychiatrist who tries to save...
...Terminal Man do raise other, more significant questions, but Crichton drops them almost with embarassment, for The Action Must Go On. Harry Benson, a slightly nutty computer programmer who fears that machines are taking over the world, is subject to dangerous fits. Disregarding the opposition of Janet Ross, the psychiatrist who fears a disturbance of Benson's precarious mental balance, a team of neurosurgeons implants a tiny computer terminal in his brain, designed to counteract the abnormal brainwaves that precede his epileptic seizures. Of course, the operation is not quite successful...
...SECOND part of the work records the personal diary of Comrade V., precisely chronicling the assault on his sense of stability and detailing his daily encounters with the only arm of the State which directly confronts him--the psychiatrist. The war described in these harassed jottings is one of attrition, and we are privy to the unravelling of "the fragile thread that sustains lucidity...
...concluding section is a droll qualification of the first two. It contains the text of the psychiatrist's report on the case--an exploration of the problem of "schizoid monomamania" which not only undermines the credibility of the foregoing account, but leaves in doubt the very existence of this mathematician Comrade V. A melange of philosophic sallies, this third part of the novel features essays on the history of the stoic movement and the creation cum Laung of an unreal universe in response to an insane environment. In a penetrating investigation of changing criterion of artistic excellence. Park perceptively notes...
...Paul A. Walters, Jr., psychiatrist to UHS, said that the Psychiatry department of UHS has started group therapy on a limited basis. The department has also begun to allow fifth year graduate students in Social Relations with previous clinical training to see patients this year...