Word: psychoanalysts
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...idiots, young free-spirited disasters of innocence and honesty. He, execrably played by Beau Bridges, and she, execrably played by Barbara Dana, are about to become parents in name only. Their immediate life plan consists of divorce for themselves, adoption for their unborn child. In intellectual hock to his psychoanalyst, Beau has convinced Barbara that he and she are emotionally unready for parenthood. A hotter squarehead prevails. Hiram Sherman is a proper-minded homosexual, more censorious than Cato the Elder. He has raised Beau since the lad was a 15-year-old pickup...
...symptoms, which nevertheless increase in severity and peculiarity, the pains accompanied more and more often by such vivid evidences of acute anxiety-colitis, exhaustion, "testicular commotion" and finally even the delusion of facing an "attack by crooked lines"-that in time the wretched man is persuaded to consult a psychoanalyst, an experience almost as painful for the hero as it is for the reader, who may or may not be persuaded to hang on for more than 100 pages while Author Berto composes an intense but trite idvertisement for himself and incidentally reminds the critics yet once more that Freud...
...attempts at martyrdom. Where dissent is harshly silenced, spectacular means of protest may be needed; within the ample means and methods of U.S. democracy, a human voice means more than a human torch. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause," Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel once said, "while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly...
...attitude of the church toward all men of good will-including atheists-should be one of dialogue, not damnation. And Mexican Bishop Sergio Méndez Arceo of Cuernavaca suggested that the church should pay tribute to the views of a renowned atheist whom it has long deplored: Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Bishop Méndez argued that Freud's teachings constitute "a useful method of purification" and should be taken into account in the redrafting of Schema 13. Said he: "There is no field of pastoral activity where psychoanalysis is not useful...
...those who see their pregnancies through ever suffer from mental breakdowns; similarly, few who get legal abortions are left with a severe psychological scar. But psychiatrists and other doctors tend to agree that women who desperately seek illegal abortions almost inevitably suffer from a "postabortion hangover." Says Manhattan Psychoanalyst Leah Schaefer: "Sometimes a woman feels so guilty that she blames everything, especially a subsequent difficult birth, on her having had an illegal abortion...