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Normally, Joe is a psychiatrist. But Joe is no longer normal. In order to heal himself, he holes up in a strange pad, assumes a fresh identity and films his sexual and spiritual agonies in a voyeur's version of Candid Camera. The analyst analyzed, the schizoid psyche caught flagrante delicto-it is a notion worthy of Pirandello or Antonioni. And totally beyond Milton Moses Ginsberg, neophyte writer-director of Coming Apart...
...interim: a toothsome baby sitter; a campaign worker for Eugene McCarthy (is nothing sacred?); a scholarly type who mumbles "I read your paper . . . It's very impressive" as she's being undressed; and a transvestite, presumably added to assure the widest possible audience appeal. Finally Psychiatrist Torn comes apart from his pregnant wife and his sterile life...
...told her that she had had me fooled for most of the summer. "I know," she said. "That's one of the reasons I decided not to have it done in Boston. I was talking to a friend and he told me if I walked into a psychiatrist's office here looking even relatively self-assured, I would get turned down. I wasn't going to lie and say I was about to commit suicide. And I didn't have any record of mental illness. Besides, I heard that there was a chance that they might contact my parents...
...think a psychiatrist would have to answer that," and he laughed...
...there, too, that combat therapy radically and abruptly departs from its civilian equivalent. "Our aim is not to please the patient," - says Murray. "At home, the psychiatrist's orientation is toward kindness, consideration, tender loving care. Here, to be kind would be to send your patient home." The purpose of military therapy, however, is not cure but amelioration. It is to get a disabled fighting man back on the line-or, if possible, to keep him on the line...