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David is hardly alone. Narcissism has become a leading topic of research in psychoanalytic circles, and one of the most common diagnoses. "You used to see people coming in with hand-washing compulsions, phobias and familiar neuroses," says Clinical Psychologist Sheldon Bach. "Now you see mostly narcissists." Adds Psychoanalyst Herbert Hendin, author of The Age of Sensation: "Probably two-thirds to three-quarters of psychoanalytic patients have narcissistic problems...
...generally taken to mean an inability to distinguish the self from the outside world, as an infant makes no distinction between himself, his mother and a bottle of milk. Reeling from some past wound to selfesteem, the narcissist exploits and manipulates others in a quest to be admired. Says Psychoanalyst Donald Kaplan: "Other people exist like a candy machine. If there's no candy left, the narcissist starts kicking the machine...
...says Donald Kaplan, "is partly an intellectual fad, partly a response to the kind of patients we started to get in the mid-'60s-people in constant pursuit of new experiences to make their sense of self more palpable and acquit themselves of being less than their neighbors." Psychoanalyst Hendin agrees: "When I grew up, there was a greed for material things; now it's a very egocentric greed for experience." Today, says Hendin, "the culture has made caring seem like losing...
Pearlman and his colleague at the Boston Veterans' Administration Hospital, Psychoanalyst Ramon Greenberg, are among those who argue that REM sleep does more than aid memory: it also helps people cope with daily stress. Paradoxically, it is while sleeping that they assimilate traumatic experiences they have had during the day. In recording the sleep patterns of psychiatric patients, Pearlman and Greenberg found a rise in REM sleep occurred after stressful discussions. In an experiment with nonpatients, the need for REM sleep rose sharply after exposure to distressing movies. The researchers' conclusion: the memory function and coping function...
...from garden-variety little green men to simple aliens who resembled Italians dressed like Greyhound bus drivers. Reactions to UFOs usually depended on one's interests, angst and reflexes. While the jittery Air Force launched a top-secret investigation to prove whether or not the saucers were real, Psychoanalyst Carl Jung groped for a different sort of explanation. Flying saucers, he speculated, were really psychic projections of mankind's hope for the existence of a higher power in a frightening and chaotic world...