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...When I first decided to form a ballet company, Mother said: 'Dear, why don't you just see a psychiatrist?' I told her it would be cheaper to form a ballet company...
...reliable guide to the adolescent mind, Psychiatrist Rubin established his credentials in Lisa and David, the authentic case history of two youthful mental patients that was even better as the movie David and Lisa. This time the guide has thrown away his map. In the book's two unconnected episodes, he conducts a ramble through the thoughts of two 16-year-old boys who have nothing in common but an unrequited appetite for human contact. "Platzo" is the fantasy name that Arthur Turbitzky, a nice, repressed Jewish boy, bestows on himself, explaining to the reader "Platz means place...
...similar aversion to logical thought; he elucidates the libertarianism of the 1960's by invoking century-old war horses: the rise of Science, the deterioration of Faith, the pressure for Sexual Equality. In short, here is a man, with all the prestige and influence of a Harvard psychiatrist, who displays the analytic powers of an after-dinner speaker for the Hoboken Kiwanis...
...most psychiatrists, the increase in marijuana smoking represents not so much a search for new thrills as the traditional, exhibitionistic rebellion of youngsters against adult authority. Parents who are quite agreeable to students' drinking almost always boggle at drugs. "There is not much that students can do that is defiant," says a Boston psychiatrist. "They think with some degree of glee about what their parents would think if they knew they were smoking marijuana." These students also are "looking for changes in personality," and "they lack communication and feel isolated-when they smoke there is a certain togetherness...
...Boston, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities has rummaged through the crumbling brick of a house by Early American Architect Charles Bulfinch to retrieve choice examples of historic woodwork. A well-known Boston psychiatrist cases demolition sites on Sundays, is now the proud possessor of seven copper finials designed by architects ranging from H. H. Richardson to Anonymous...