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...lived in a suburb of Paris, deals with her friendships with Lawrence Durrell, Dr. Otto Rank, Henry Miller and his wife, June. Of all the diaries, this one is the most interesting. Her second diary (1934-39) is set in New York where she worked as an amateur psychiatrist under Dr. Otto Rank. The romance of France being more conducive to her writing, she returned again to her birthplace. The third diary (1939-44) opens with her flight from the Second World War in Europe to Manhattan where she establishes herself as a reluctantly expatriated writer. The fourth and newly...
...Harvard Psychiatrist Daniel Funkenstein, who has studied the goals and attitudes of 2,000 medical students since 1958, has plotted the change statistically. When Funkenstein began his inquiries, practically none of the students with whom he talked planned careers in "community health." By 1969, however, 30% expressed an interest in practicing this type of medicine...
...blackly comic amusement park of a book, replete with vertiginous roller coaster rides of the spirit, feverish omnisexual trips through the tunnel of love, and crazy images reflected in the distorting fun-house mirrors of the mind. The master and slave of this berserk carnival is a psychiatrist named Luke Rhinehart, after the pseudonymous author, whose real name is George Cockcroft. Cockcroft took the hero's name as his pen name "because the book is in part autobiographical and I wanted to force the reader to take the book more seriously than he would a novel." Luke is a square...
...John Cody is a tender and meticulous exhumer. Dr. Cody, a practising psychiatrist, has written Emily Dickinson's psychobiography; (a psychobiography is a psychoanalysis of a deceased person). He uses her letters and poems and previously unpublished family letters in lieu of what, if she were alive, would be her dreams and free associations. Dr. Cody is circumspect in his postulations; he comes to no conclusions without the corroboration of repetitive allusion in the poet's work, which he cites constantly. Frequency of allusion, symbol and metaphor is the key he uses to understand the dimensions of the problems...
...want to encourage more long-term therapy within whatever limits that are possible," Munter said. "We're limited of course on a pragmatic level because it's so expensive. But long-term therapy is the wellspring and granddaddy of psychiatry. It permits a honing of skills for the psychiatrist...