Word: psychoanalyst
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...extent that Nixon is at all like L.B.J., he swears, as Johnson did, at least partly in order to show contempt for others, according to Dr. Michael Maccoby, a Washington psychoanalyst who has made a classification of cussers. "Both were lower-middle-class guys who made good. They felt that certain people were contemptuous of them, so they in turn were contemptuous of those they perceived to be their enemies...
Manhattan Psychoanalyst Natalie Shainess adds that bisexuality and homosexuality are symptoms of "developmental damages" during childhood. A homosexual, she notes, grows up distrusting the opposite sex; a bisexual is in a sense in a worse plight because he distrusts both sexes. Moreover, the constant ricocheting from one sex to the other, says Shainess, can create unstable friendships as well as a chaotic homelife. If there are children involved, this may confuse their sense of sexual identity. She asks: "Is this invitation for anything-goes sex helping human beings lead more satisfying lives?" Her answer...
ELIZABETH, 44, a Manhattan advertising woman, was a fierce teetotaler because both her parents were problem drinkers. At 35, facing the prospect of a mastectomy, Elizabeth went to her psychoanalyst. The doctor proposed that she try a drink to calm her fears. "I'll never forget the feeling," Elizabeth says. "It hit me instantly. This was something I'd been waiting for without knowing it, and I never wanted to be without it again. I felt so warm and calm and safe...
...estimated 11 million homosexuals in the U.S., the reclassification is much more than a matter of semantics. They feel that the mental-disorder stigma has long been used to deny them fair housing, employment, child custody and immigration rights. Psychoanalyst Robert Spitzer, author of the board's position paper on homosexuality, supports their view. The new definition, he says, will remove "one of the justifications for the denial of civil rights to individuals whose only crime is that their sexual orientation is to members of the same sex." Many of Spitzer's colleagues concur. "It is unfair...
KNOTS. One of the central ideas of the oracular psychoanalyst R.D. Laing is that people who are maddened by an irrational society drive each other mad. In his book Knots, a melange of gnomic wordplay, he gave a lively definition of what he meant. For example, he thinks that nearly everyone has come tumbling after an archetypal Jack and Jill caught in such tangles as "I'm upset that you're not upset that I'm upset that you're upset that I'm upset when...