Word: psychoanalyst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bases a mounting series of un-excruciating events on a carefully mistaken identity and calls it a story matters little. Astaire and Ginger Rogers are on a Boston screen, and they sing Irving Berlin songs and dance to them, and there isn't slightest him of a neurosis or psychoanalyst in the whole picture...
...Short & the Long. Surveying the histories of several thousand psychoanalyzed patients, Psychoanalyst Joseph Wilder of Manhattan recently reported that there were few "cures," but "good results" (i.e., substantial improvement) in some 30-40% of the patients. About 20% of neurotics snap out of their funk without psychiatric treatment. Dr. Wilder's most significant finding: "brief psychotherapy," i.e., 30 to 40 sessions, produces just as good results as the prolonged orthodox treatment...
Despite its faddist aspects and doctrinaire squabbles, psychoanalysis is a serious, exacting process. Analysts take great pains to disassociate themselves from the horde of phony "psychologists" and other quacks. A psychoanalyst, like any other psychiatrist, must have a medical degree, spend at least five years in psychiatric study after his internship and have a complete psychoanalysis of himself to win professional recognition by his colleagues. Many states have no law regulating the practice of psychoanalysis, but associations of psychiatrists lay down standards, try to police their profession...
...luxurious loony bin with Town & Country interiors, brilliant Psychoanalyst Bergman handles raving patients and wolfish colleagues with equally prim professionalism. But when the institution's new head turns out to be tall, tousled, handsome Gregory Peck, she astonishes herself and the audience by turning up in his rooms on a highly unprofessional midnight visit. Since most of the medical staff seem to be only about two jumps ahead of the screaming meemies, no one pays much attention when "Psychiatrist" Peck begins to twitch and grimace over a few fork marks on the tablecloth. But Analyst Bergman quickly diagnoses...
Like many of his kind, Abstractionist Hilaire Hiler (rhymes with kill-care smiler) writes more understandably than he paints. Besides teaching himself to paint. Hiler has been a saxophone player, a nightclub decorator, costume expert, Paris café philosopher, amateur psychoanalyst and author. He likes his present job ("serious research painting" in Santa Fe) best...