Word: psychoanalyst
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...Kansas City Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins, the longest in professional football history (see SPORT), left many a turkey dinner in limbo-and many more of the nation's "football widows" in a state of frustrated anger. Now, if the housewives buy the theory of a Brooklyn psychoanalyst, they have even more to grumble about...
...longer just for entertainment that men watch eight hours of football a day," says Psychoanalyst Morton Golden. The other motivation? Sex. Men use the games, says Golden, "as a fantasy to relive the youthful sexual aggressiveness that may have ebbed with age and boredom." Psychoanalysts, of course, see sex or aggression in almost any human activity, and laymen may well be skeptical of the diagnosis. But Golden insists in all seriousness that football has become a male substitute for sex, similar to the role of the soap opera for women...
That view is held both by Manhattan Psychoanalyst Max Deutscher, who has just begun a new study of the dreams and fantasies of first pregnancy, and by San Francisco Psychiatrist Arthur Colman and his wife Libby, authors of Pregnancy: The Psychological Experience, to be published in January by Herder & Herder. As Deutscher and the Colmans see it, the transformation of marital partners into parents goes through three stages lasting three months each. THE FIRST TRIMESTER is basically a time of shock, during which the coming birth is recognized as a cause of major chang es. The wife becomes more dependent...
Today's children are reaching sexual maturity earlier than previous generations. Many parents are responding by condoning early dating, and some are even encouraging use of the Pill by girls barely into their teens. That kind of permissiveness can have unhappy consequences, according to Manhattan Psychoanalyst Peter Bios. In the current issue of Daedalus, he insists that youthful behavior need not follow biology, and that "a prolongation rather than an abbreviation of childhood" is imperative...
Visiting Locusts. In Act II, Mel has not only been fired, but his unanticipated severance pay is a nervous breakdown. His wife Edna (Lee Grant) goes to work, and that bruises his pride further. His psychoanalyst has died, taking $23,000 of Mel's money with him. He has a visitation of locusts-his two sisters, a sister-in-law and his older brother Harry (Vincent Gardenia)-who tell him that the family is determined to provide "X-number of dollars" to assist him. The attempt to agree on what X-number of dollars is in cash supplies...