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...woman's reaction often depends upon her relationship with the man. Some single women say that abortion ends any affection they might have felt for the man responsible. Another factor, according to Psychoanalyst Theodor Reik, is that women may unconsciously see abortion as a man does castration...
...science is distorted to bolster his image as an honorary member of the Sisterhood. "Every human embryo starts out as female," Reuben asserts. It is the same nonsense fobbed off by Kate Millett (Sexual Politics, page 30), who claimed as her source not a geneticist but a woman psychoanalyst. The fallacious reasoning behind the claim is that since human fetuses start out without male genitalia. they are physically female. The fact is that sex is determined at the moment of fertilization by the combination of chromosomes contained in the sperm and egg. One may as well argue that because...
...offer subsidies to families. Despite such changes, average T.R.A. parents are still much like conventional adoptive parents: 98% are married; most are under 40; well over half are college educated; two-thirds earn at least $10,000 a year; and a majority go to church regularly. Psychologically, Los Angeles Psychoanalyst Judd Marmor told the National Conference on Social Welfare, T.R.A. families are likely to be self-confident, self-aware, and given to judging people as individuals...
...Psychoanalyst J. Cotter Hirschberg of the Menninger Foundation favors telling kids the facts between ages four and seven, "when the strength of the family is at its greatest" for the child. He urges mothers to tell about adoption only when they feel comfortable and do not see it as a guilty secret. In addition, he advocates letting children express their feelings freely, especially "their anger at having been separated," and he believes they should be helped to understand that their natural parents gave them up because they could not look after them. As for the common longing to seek...
Much harder to dismiss are allegations that behavior therapy threatens man's freedom by manipulating patients like so many laboratory animals. San Francisco's Allen Wheelis, who is both psychoanalyst and thoughtful novelist, believes that a human being who submits to behavior manipulation "is treating himself as object and to some extent, therefore, becomes an object." In a similar vein, Los Angeles Analyst Judd Marmor recently wrote that the new method comes "uncomfortably close to the dangerous area of thought and behavior control." Not so, says Behaviorist Alan Goldstein of Temple University. "People come to us to have...