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...study of Scandinavia, Manhattan Psychoanalyst Dr. Herbert Hendin found some significant clues. Norwegians, who are less emotionally dependent and less repressed than their neighbors, average less than half the suicide rate of Sweden and Denmark. Dr. Hendin found Swedes bottled up emotionally, extremely ambitious, and prone to despair and self-aggression when their goals have not been achieved. In Denmark, Hendin declared, mothers control the behavior of their children by making them feel guilty; hence, suicide in Denmark, he theorized, is typically motivated by the attempt to establish guilt in a love object...
...same time, America's popularization of psychology is doing much to destroy the mystique that used to surround the psychiatrist. So is humor, from the countless stand-up-comics' jokes ("A psychoanalyst is a Jewish doctor who hates the sight of blood"), to the literary satires that are themselves becoming stock (Lillian Ross's Vertical and Horizontal). The mind doctor is looking more and more like any other pro with a job to do-a job not free from the pressure of automation. M.I.T. once programmed a computer to talk via typewriter like a psychiatrist. Excerpts from...
...refused to look a woman in the face and could not, insists Author Singer, recognize his own wife) learnedly ruled his roost. He also ruled his rabbinical court, the Beth Din, an institution that dated from the days of Moses and was a blend of synagogue, law court and psychoanalyst's consulting room for the superstitious, the bereaved and the troubled. For Isaac Bashevis, it exemplified "the celestial council of justice, God's judgment, absolute mercy." One time a miserable pauper, who was forced to keep the corpse of his wife in his rat-ridden cellar room until...
Psychology and anthropology are inclined to see America as a nation of spoiled children. "Americans want immediate satisfaction," says Manhattan Psychologist Harold Greenwald. "The car buyer can't wait a week for his car." Says Manhattan Psychoanalyst Sandor Lorand: "Patience is just another quality Americans forfeit when they live in this pressure cooker. From the day the child starts school, he is under pressure. No wonder he grows up impatient-first with others, then with himself...
...research in his laboratory. Americans love speed and power on the highway, but they are the most disciplined drivers in the world. While the French, Italian or German driver burns out his batteries with his horn and uses his car as an instrument of vengeance ("In Germany," says one psychoanalyst, "anger is a status symbol"), the American knows that he must drive as part of a group. Although Americans endure queues, bad service, inept repairmen, and surly sales help with remarkable stoicism, French Philosopher Jacques Maritain once suggested that they are impatient with life itself. Yet almost everyone...