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...ward off psychic crackups while traveling through space, Dr. Wilcox sugests a stream of homey news from earth, and televised views of moms and sweethearts. Where such therapy does not sufice, he believes that a therapist should keep in communication with the crew by microphone and loudspeaker. Ever-present and all-hearing, he will watch from disant earth for the first warning signs of a psychological storm-to-come. By the technique of group therapy he can smooth ruffled feelings and try to keep peace on the spaceship all the way to Mars...
Injustice Collector. Homosexuality, says Analyst Bergler, is neither a "biologically determined destiny, nor incomprehensible ill luck." In Freudian terms he traces a complicated pattern of the development of homosexuality from infantile frustrations, through "pleasure in displeasure." to unconscious psychic masochism. The full-grown homosexual, as Bergler sees him, wallows in self-pity and continually provokes hostility to ensure himself more opportunities for self pity he "collects" injustices-sometimes real, often fancied; he is full of defensive malice and flippancy, covering his depression and guilt with extreme narcissism and superciliousness. He refuses to acknowledge accepted standards even in nonsexual matters, assuming...
Freudian thinking has emphasized emotional factors in frigidity. Kegel does not deny the importance of psychic elements, but insists that the emphasis is misplaced. Says Kegel in sum: "We have had many cases previously diagnosed as 'emotionally frigid,' but we found that after the muscles had been strengthened by exercise and the patient learned to use them, the emotional frigidity-if there ever was any-disappeared." In correcting this disorder, he reports success in 65% of cases...
...example, Bishop Marling cites a study by a Catholic priest, "at home in the psychic realm," of St. Teresa of Lisieux (1873-97), who seems to have suffered a severe obsessional neurosis...
...geometrical figures began to dance oddly-shifting their places and changing shape right under the viewer's nose-demonstrating the power of life and movement in the most elementary forms and colors. "The concern of the artist," Albers maintains, "is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect." If that is not the only concern of most artists, it certainly is in Albers' case; he has devoted his life to widening the discrepancy...