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...Psychiatrist Satten and his Topeka research team, it seemed that the murderous petty officer-listed in their records as "Thomas"-had temporarily and partially lost consciousness and suffered a kind of personality detachment. This jibed with Thomas' own statement: "I knew I was doing it, but it didn't seem like me. It was like watching myself doing it." In three other cases of sudden and apparently motiveless murder, the Topeka researchers got the same story of men blacking out and then seeming to be spectators at their own crimes...
Whether there is poetry or not, there is some harsh truth in the 1930 song hit You're Driving Me Crazy. Long experience with patients at Maryland's Chestnut Lodge, a private hospital for the mentally ill, has convinced Psychiatrist Harold F. Searles that "the individual becomes schizophrenic partly by reason of a long-continued . . . unconscious effort on the part of some person or persons . . . to drive him crazy." It would be inane to suggest that this is the only cause of the varied and complex conditions lumped together as schizophrenia, Dr. Searles admits in the British Journal...
...advance rebuttal of charges that such things cannot really happen, Psychiatrist Searles cites his own experience with a woman patient who seemed to be trying to seduce him while talking international politics. "Responding on these two unrelated levels," he says, "I found it such a strain that I felt as though I were losing my mind." In this case, sanity and psychiatry...
...Browns. In its most virulent form, says Tabori quoting a psychiatrist, stupidity serves "to disguise the truth from ourselves." Milder cases result in folly, credulity, superstition, plain silliness. Men of science have resisted progress with the mindless tenacity of Bourbons. Distinguished experts, including members of the famed French Academy, have on occasion "proved" that there are no such things as meteors and hypnosis; they have shown conclusively that man can never fly, that steamboats and railways will not work, and that the idea of laying undersea cables is preposterous...
...stand an hour of literate, intelligent conversation, then I urge you to go see your minister, your priest, your rabbi, or your psychiatrist: you are deathly sick." The speaker was Alexander King, sometime adman, artist, editor and dope addict, who has turned the kind of anecdote-flavored coffeehouse talk that has long been familiar in his home town (Vienna) into a highly successful TV act. His garrulous appearances on the Jack Paar show helped boost his current bestseller, Mine Enemy Grows Older, a book of amusing, scurrilous reminiscences. His often witty, sometimes vulgar, hour-long weekly talk show on Manhattan...