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Today's typical Sabra is tough, proud and seemingly unemotional. "Our children are ashamed to be ashamed," an Israeli psychoanalyst once observed. "They are afraid to be afraid." The Israeli-born Jew is also a bit weary of hearing about the sufferings of the Diaspora, if not openly scornful of the Diaspora Jew's passive acceptance of his fate...
...best-known humanistic psychoanalyst is Rollo May. Although May feels that psychology owes a debt to Freud for his emphasis on the "irrational, repressed, hostile and unacceptable urges" of a man's past, he also believes that Freud's approach leaves out much that is most human. At the same time, May warns that the behaviorists must beware lest they create a totally mechanical society. "My faith is that the human being will be rediscovered," says May. With this rediscovery, he hopes, will come a new emphasis on love, creativity, music and all the other qualitative, introspective experiences...
...humanistic psychology, as well as in much contemporary psychoanalysis, there is a new sense that man can become a more active force in shaping his life. Freud, with his emphasis on man's being driven by his unconscious, tended to undercut the notion of will. Writes Italian Psychoanalyst Roberto Assagioli: "The will can be truly called the unknown and neglected factor in modern psychology, psychotherapy and education." San Francisco Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis agrees. "Knowledgeable moderns put their back to the couch, and in so doing may fail to put their shoulders to the wheel." But this should change. Wheelis...
...method of treating emotional disturbance called psychosynthesis also assumes the reality and the importance-for a few men, at least-of their spiritual side. Assagioli, the Freudian-trained psychoanalyst who originated the method, explains that "we walk to the door of religion, but we let the individual open it." Assagioli's theory postulates several levels of man's "inner constitution," including a higher realm that is the psychic home of his spiritual, philosophical and artistic "imperatives." To gain access to this region, Assagioli uses conventional psychoanalysis as well as a series of esoteric exercises and meditation techniques...
...clitoral" orgasm seemed to suggest the need for major reappraisals of these theories. The first such effort was Mary Jane Sherfey's The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexuality-- originally appearing in 1966 as an article in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Sherfey is a New York psychoanalyst whose initial research into premenstrual tension led her to more radical speculations about female sexuality. Her book is largely a summary of the Masters and Johnson findings, but with the addition of another hypothesis--one treated with much skepticism in medical circles--that the early embryo is, until the sixth...