Word: psychoanalysts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Dr. Leo Rangell, president of the International Psycho-Analytical Association and clinical professor of psychiatry at U.C.L.A.: "It is difficult to know who is speaking in the book-May the psychoanalyst, May the theologian or May the existentialist." The comment is accurate, because May does speak in all those voices. He has also been trained in all three disciplines...
...their earlier work, perhaps because its intended professional audience has not yet read it. Nonetheless, the Masters and Johnson approach has been sharply criticized by some medical authorities. Manhattan Psychiatrist Natalie Shainess contends that the authors' coldly technical attitude toward therapy robs sex of its joy and meaning. Existential Psychoanalyst Rollo May, who was less than enthusiastic about the authors' research into the mechanics of coital function, says that Masters and Johnson are fighting puritanism with "the new technology"?a dangerous weapon because it contributes to the depersonalization of sex by assuming that sex is part of technology...
...Archer, the narrator-hero of the story section, is-like Wheelis himself -a San Francisco psychoanalyst. Fortyish and divorced, Archer regularly sees his patients, consults with his colleagues, plays a little chess and a lot of women. He is a man of few illusions who expects little and usually settles for less...
Writing in the current issue of New York University's Drama Review, Psychoanalyst Donald M. Kaplan traces stage fright through three phases, and then sets the phenomenon in Freudian perspective. Stage fright, he notes, usually begins with the actual scheduling of an event. An actor need only recall "the simple fact of the impending performance" to bring on moods of depression, spells of manic agitation, outbursts among intimates. And that goes for veterans as well as tyros. Marlene Dietrich acted out a classic example of the problem in the 1950 movie Stage Fright. Some years ago. the late Paul...
Died. Theodor Reik, 81, psychoanalyst, author, and protégé of Sigmund Freud; of heart disease; in New York. Part of Freud's small coterie in pre-World War I Vienna, Reik was one of his principal defenders in later years, expanding on classical Freudian theory in his 50 books. Masochism in Modern Man, his masterwork, proposed that the masochist is basically a pleasure seeker, whose outward need for humiliation expresses a more basic desire to be loved. In all his works, Reik displayed a refreshing freedom from technical jargon, as in Of Love and Lust, where...