Word: psychoanalysts
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...Monday morning" she became a well-to-do celebrity, all set to hurl herself into the "national pastime" of "having things nice." "I had people in to dinner, and I had a maid to cook the dinner ... I got a divorce, which is standard. I went to a psychoanalyst-which is standard, too." In a few more years, said her friends, Margaret would be safe in Hollywood's bosom, having things nicer than ever...
...This is not an extreme or exceptional example," says Psychoanalyst Lawrence S. Kubie in the current Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. Some 50 hours of preventive psychiatry might well have prevented the "fantastic generosity" of 5,600 hours of surgery and medicine-which in this case were "not only wasted, but were actually destructive." What the U.S. badly needs, says Dr. Kubie, is a nationwide program of preventive psychiatry. It "would be an economy for every general hospital ... for individual private practitioners, but above all, in the lives of ... patients...
...gentler moments on canvas, his earthly scenes abound in abandoned lovers, tortured sick men and money-loving monks, with a watching demon or two always close at hand. Through them runs a train of almost surrealistic symbolism, a cross patch of a witches' Sabbath and a psychoanalyst's nightmare, that has fascinated and baffled five centuries of art critics...
...adjudicate between physical and psychological explanations of mental states. But he could not resist a dig at the extreme Freudians: "You will recall the moving end of Peer Gynt, where Peer finds Solveig . . . and realizes that she is both wife and mother . . . If, as the curtain falls, a psychoanalyst in the seat behind you whispers: 'Oedipus complex!', do you understand the play better or enjoy it more...
...Psychologist VanderVeldt and Psychiatrist Odenwald have their reservations. Their target is not Freud's medical techniques, but "the phillosophy that has gradually been tacked on" them. "Freud's most fundamental mistake was to view a person as a machine, a set of mechanisms, and to consider the psychoanalyst as a technician or mechanic who is supposed to mend these mechanisms when they function badly...