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...seem to be anything like so wide as with us. One finds that their novelists can assume in their audience-as we cannot-at least a rudimentary acquaintance with what industry is all about . . . An engineer in a Soviet novel is as acceptable, so it seems, as a psychiatrist in an American...
Delattre holds weekly seminars in poetry and prose, stages original plays, has a psychiatrist from the San Francisco Veterans' Administration give group therapy sessions. On Sundays Delattre invites a select half-dozen to his flat for an agape* of bread, wine and cheese...
What happens then? The ordinary cocktail-hour psychiatrist will have no difficulty understanding the professionals' explanation. The stress-blind personality creates for himself a "maladaptation syndrome," theorizes the University of Oklahoma's Dr. Stewart Wolf, in which increased blood cholesterol is a "biological adaptive mechanism for providing the body with fuel for extraordinary effort. Because the stress-prone individual is constantly striving and constantly frustrated, his body reacts as though he were constantly carrying a burden." The rise in blood cholesterol and lipides (fatty molecules) may increase the danger of thrombosis, particularly when other factors (heredity, diet...
Author Miller has written his jungle book in the form of a long memoir from Duke to the psychiatrist assigned to his case at an upstate reform school. The parallel to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is ironic, and too close to be anything but intentional. Miller's gift for mimicking the speech of a bitter, neurotic boy is as true as Salinger's. But Holden Caulfield had a caustically individual twist to his mind, and it was on an exploration of this mind that Salinger concentrated. Miller's book is focused...
...Stokie in a letter: "I do not want my boys exposed to your paranoid attitudes." In rejoinder, the maestro tartly accused Gloria of absentee motherism, late to bed and late to rise, traipsing out for dinner, often missing lunch with the children because she "makes morning visits to her psychiatrist and returns home...