Word: psychoanalyst
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Last week Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who is by no means a friend of Fiorello LaGuardia, seized this climactic outburst to suggest that the Mayor needs a psychoanalyst. "The Little Flower," wrote Pegler, "has been going haywire lately. . . . He owes his job to the decent press of New York, which he hates because he can't suppress news of his own absurdities. . . . The papers have tried to cover up his alarming instability...
...fact, she was a cat. She was a typical example of some 200 animals made neurotic by University of Chicago Psychoanalyst Jules H. Masserman in the last three years. His purpose in this scientific cat & mouse game: to find out by experiment what makes & breaks a neurosis. At the American Psychiatric Association meeting in Boston last fortnight Psychoanalyst Masserman presented his results, showed movies of the first animals in medical history who were first given nervous breakdowns, then cured of them by psychotherapy...
Most unique cat therapy was a method employed in human psychoanalysis. Like a good psychoanalyst, Dr. Masserman quietly observed his patients as they "worked through'' their own problems. They were given many opportunities to fiddle with the light switches and the lid of the box, learn for themselves what had produced their neuroses. Through repeated trials they gradually developed "insight" into the sequence of light switch, food, air blast, finally became welladjusted, normal cats...
...none of them dull, all as needle-toothed and portentous as so many black cats. Among them they put together the tortuous, semiautobiographical figure of Margaret Sargent, a youngwoman-about-Manhattan, from the callow moment in which she breaks her first marriage to the hour when, twisting on a psychoanalyst's sofa like an unable phoenix in hot ashes, she discovers in her childhood the source of her emptiness...
...life at his Psychodramatic Institute in Beacon, N.Y. Psychodrama is Dr. Moreno's method for treating mental ills-a sort of theatrical psychoanalysis which he uses for troubled mortals, as well as for Hitlers and Hamlets. Instead of lying on a couch and confiding their woes to a psychoanalyst, patients act out their problems, impromptu, on a bare little stage. Many a patient who is hostile or shy refuses at first to take part, suddenly blurts out his hidden neurosis...