Word: psychoanalyst
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...confessional" of the psychoanalyst's office, total recall is encouraged; but psychoanalysts are paid to listen...
...psychiatrists themselves had more solemn problems on their minds. Their profession, they thought, was facing a task even graver than its job in wartime. Said famed Psychoanalyst William C. Menninger, the new A.P.A. president-elect: "No longer is the world cursed with smallpox or cholera or yellow fever. . . . We have learned to eliminate space and to annihilate people, but we still lag far behind in learning how to get along with each other. . . . Is there any hope that medicine, through its Cinderella, psychiatry, can step forward to offer its therapeutic effort to a world full of unhappiness and maladjustment...
...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...