Word: psychoanalyst
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...professional who agrees in part with Chesler is Manhattan Psychoanalyst Natalie Shainess: "Many psychiatrists are unconsciously contemptuous of women," she says. Isaiah Zimmerman, a psychologist in Washington, D.C., doubts that therapists of his age (44) can entirely overcome the effects of their rearing in a male-oriented society. "My generation won't make it," he admits. All the same, alerted by his wife, daughters and patients to minor signs of his own bias (habitual use of the pronoun he instead of she, for instance), Zimmerman reports that he has brought about some "moderately profound changes" in himself...
...Psychiatric theories of personality, he observes, do not hold women inferior to men. True, many psychiatrists accept Freud's famous "anatomy is destiny" dictum, which is anathema to feminists. To professionals, though, the doctrine does not condemn women to second-class citizenship; it means only that, as Hartford Psychoanalyst Rebecca Solomon puts it, "Women have to cope psychologically with the facts of their biology. They are human beings who have the capacity to procreate whether they choose...
...means all the witnesses agreed. The fact that it was a woman rather than a man doing the exploiting cut no ice with Psychoanalyst Ernest van den Haag. "Once you regard a person as merely a means to your plea sure," he declared during his four hours of testimony, "then you will be ready to commit any act for your pleasure or displeasure-putting another person in a concentration camp or exploiting his teeth and hair...
...acknowledge that it could "devalue relationships." Not all behavior experts are totally opposed to group sex, but few take such a sanguine view as Comfort. Many believe that participants are often emotionally disturbed, immature men and women whose sexual activities provide distraction but no solution to basic problems. Chicago Psychoanalyst Ner Littner feels that couples who swing are incapable of intimate relationships even with each other, and use wife-swapping "as a safety valve that keeps intimacy at a level each can tolerate." Anthropologist Gilbert Bartell believes that "sensitive" people find group sex "too mechanistic," that "there is a loss...
POWER AND INNOCENCE by Rollo May. An eminent and eloquent psychoanalyst examines people's need for power as a basis of self-respect...