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...some Israelis are concerned about the apparently cool, flat personalities that kibbutzim seem to develop. "Our children are ashamed to be ashamed, afraid to be afraid; they are afraid to love, afraid to give of themselves," says an Israeli psychoanalyst. But Ron Shouval, formerly chief psychologist of the Israeli defense forces, has a different view. "It is true that kibbutz kids are shy and on the defensive. But their lack of giving easily to outsiders creates the wrong impression; they are warm underneath. It is just that the young kibbutznik does not give up his first layer easily...
...some time, Bates would like to do a musical, and he has been taking singing lessons in London. Beyond that, like many other actors, he wants to be a film director-his own kind of film director. "A director should be a psychoanalyst to the actor," he says. "His function should be to shade points. He has an incredibly subtle job of choosing...
...Hitlers": Psychoanalyst Walter Langer's conclusion that "the difference between Hitler and other psychopaths was his ability to convince others that he is what he is not" suggests to me that it is equally important to analyze what made so many others willing to accept and follow this irrational behavior. If the mass psyche is so vulnerable, it could happen again and again. Could it happen here...
According to Williams College Historian Robert G.L. Waite, that is how Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun died in Berlin in 1945. Their bizarre deaths came as no surprise to Psychoanalyst Walter Langer. Two years earlier, he had predicted the German leader's suicide in a secret study prepared at the request of the Office of Strategic Services. Intended as an aid to Allied war planners, the study was classified "secret" and tucked away in the National Archives for years. Now it has been declassified and will be published this week as The Mind of Adolf Hitler (Basic Books...
That duality led to the horrible excesses that occurred in Nazi Germany's twilight. "As Germany suffers successive defeats, Hitler will become more and more neurotic," Psychoanalyst Langer warned the OSS. "Each defeat will shake his confidence and limit his opportunities for proving his own greatness to himself. He will probably try to compensate for his vulnerability by stressing his brutality and ruthlessness...