Word: psychoanalysts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easily become a talisman, a form of magic. Instead effacing the problems and working at them, people tend to sit back and hope for leadership. "Everybody is looking for somebody else to do something for them, to take the responsibility," says Nelson Rockefeller. According to Chicago Psychoanalyst Jules Masserman, "We never get over being children. We're always looking for a parent figure." In a democracy, leadership always requires collaboration between
...extent that Nixon is at all like L.B.J., he swears, as Johnson did, at least partly in order to show contempt for others, according to Dr. Michael Maccoby, a Washington psychoanalyst who has made a classification of cussers. "Both were lower-middle-class guys who made good. They felt that certain people were contemptuous of them, so they in turn were contemptuous of those they perceived to be their enemies...
Manhattan Psychoanalyst Natalie Shainess adds that bisexuality and homosexuality are symptoms of "developmental damages" during childhood. A homosexual, she notes, grows up distrusting the opposite sex; a bisexual is in a sense in a worse plight because he distrusts both sexes. Moreover, the constant ricocheting from one sex to the other, says Shainess, can create unstable friendships as well as a chaotic homelife. If there are children involved, this may confuse their sense of sexual identity. She asks: "Is this invitation for anything-goes sex helping human beings lead more satisfying lives?" Her answer...
ELIZABETH, 44, a Manhattan advertising woman, was a fierce teetotaler because both her parents were problem drinkers. At 35, facing the prospect of a mastectomy, Elizabeth went to her psychoanalyst. The doctor proposed that she try a drink to calm her fears. "I'll never forget the feeling," Elizabeth says. "It hit me instantly. This was something I'd been waiting for without knowing it, and I never wanted to be without it again. I felt so warm and calm and safe...
...estimated 11 million homosexuals in the U.S., the reclassification is much more than a matter of semantics. They feel that the mental-disorder stigma has long been used to deny them fair housing, employment, child custody and immigration rights. Psychoanalyst Robert Spitzer, author of the board's position paper on homosexuality, supports their view. The new definition, he says, will remove "one of the justifications for the denial of civil rights to individuals whose only crime is that their sexual orientation is to members of the same sex." Many of Spitzer's colleagues concur. "It is unfair...