Word: psychoanalyst
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Richard Simons, a Colorado psychoanalyst and writer on masochism who attended the session, agreed with Spitzer. "It's not scientifically valid to throw out a category merely because it might be misused," he said. Otherwise, Simons seemed to embrace the entire feminist position. Psychiatrists confronting battered women should not sit around pondering categories, he said. They should get out of their chairs and get the woman some physical protection. "The first thing you do is protect life and limb. A psychiatrist has that responsibility like anyone else." But in the current climate, could a psychiatrist find that a battered woman...
...superintendent, he switches to the night shift and ducks from the tenant committee. Hirsch portrays an incendiary old socialist, a meddlesome lover of confrontation politics and a compulsive impersonator of whoever might solve his problems, from a union lawyer to a Mafia don to "Dr. Friedrich Engles," a purported psychoanalyst. He too is hiding, from a daughter who wants to supervise his risky behavior. When at last she catches up with him, he deftly summarizes her alternative plans to take him in, place him in a nursing home or consign him to day care at a senior citizens' center...
When Canadian psychoanalyst Elliot Jacques coined the term midlife crisis back in 1965, he was not talking about a man who, upon turning 40, wakes up the next morning afraid he is going to die, goes in for hair plugs, buys a Porsche and runs off with a cupcake. He was studying creative genius and found that for many artists productivity began to decline as they reached middle age and wrestled with their own mortality. Never a legitimate clinical diagnosis, it was more like a handy way of describing the perfectly predictable process whereby every so often people looked around...
...psychoanalyst Carl Jung explained how in middle age people tend to drop the roles they were playing, outgrow their pretenses. Some women become more willing to take risks as they grow less concerned about what others think. Women who submerged their identity when their children were young may feel a sense of liberation once they are older. Even the death of a parent, while painful and a frequent trigger of midlife depression, can free women from the burden of expectations, as they ask, Who am I doing all this for anyway? Shellenbarger cites research that found men's "dream fulfillment...
From Klein, Friday says, she learned that jealousy is about power: "In a world where we all want to be in control, we can't afford intimacy. If you are afraid of jealousy, you will be inhibited about loving." Psychoanalyst Willard Gaylin told Friday that living with chronic jealousy is like "walking through minefields." She knows the feeling well. "I'm always going to be a jealous person," she says, "but it's not going to overwhelm me. Now I know where the mines are." --By John...