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...emotional first aid on someone who seems headed straight for a mental institution. Says Dr. Edward Stainbrook, chairman of the department of psychiatry at the University of Southern California's medical school: "The geneticist figures you're done for when you're born. The psychoanalyst figures you're done for when you're six. But the crisis intervener says you're not done for until you're dead...
...sleep has little to do with certain kinds of wide-awake learning; adults who are deprived of REM, for example, show little or no decline in their ability to think logically or memorize. Nonetheless, Psychoanalyst Greenberg and Dr. Louis Breger of San Francisco's Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute contend that the dreams of REM promote a special kind of "emotional" learning. They believe that most dreams are unconscious responses to recent, emotionally intense experiences. If people are forced to go without REM sleep and its dreams, their ability to handle similar stress experiences the next day declines...
Arcane Experiments. The candles swayed and changed color. Really? Sirhan insisted that it was no trick of imagination, reported Dr. Bernard L. Diamond. The noted psychoanalyst, who combines professorships in law, psychiatry and criminology at the University of California at Berkeley, was the star witness for Sirhan's defense. His testimony buttressed the diagnoses of five other experts that Sirhan was afflicted with paranoia and schizophrenia. Diamond reconnoitered the darkening recesses of the assassin's mind. One key to the killing, Diamond insisted, must be found in Sirhan's arcane experiments with the mirror. It was during...
Several years ago a lay psychoanalyst who had been studying people in Morelos announced in The Atlantic that all rural people hate the land from which they grab their living. Land is fickle, he said, yielding some years and not others. Why then were the campesinos of Morelos willing to give up their lives to secure tiny fields for their children? I get from Womack's book the same feeling I have gotten from watching campesinos in other parts of Mexico talk about land. It is not something you love or hate, it is a part...
Today the bad penny returns. Dr. Bach's implication that provoking couples to fight before a group-therapy referee will alter the basic repository of man's hostility sounds equally naive. As a psychoanalyst in practice, I cannot believe...