Word: psychograph
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...EXPERTS. If the abuse case comes to trial, expert witnesses will be asked to fit Jackson's public behavior to the psychograph of a child molester. "What we see in the pattern of a fixated offender," notes clinical psychologist Nicholas Groth, co-author of Sexual Assault of Children and Adolescents, "is that he seems to get along well with people significantly older than him and those who are younger. He has a significant absence of peers. He lives more in the world of childhood than the adult world." And when the sex is gay, the offender is often homophobic, Groth...
Allen was born into Bronx serfdom, the son of Martin and Nettie Konigsberg, still happily married after 62 years. His psychograph is to be found mainly in the emotional autobiography he has transformed into comedy routines and then movie art. As Ice-T can attest, it is treacherous to mistake the singer for the song. And it is presumptuous for the public to believe it "knows" Woody $ Allen. And yet Allen's work presents itself as so nakedly, ostentatiously about himself that it seems fair to subject it to a critic's equivalent of the psychoanalysis he has undergone...
Kevin Conway paints a psychograph of Treves, each brush stroke subtler than the last, the kindest of healers plagued with the darkest of self-doubts. And Carole Shelley's Mrs. Kendal - curious, amused, emotionally generous - is a womanly oasis, and like the play itself, no mirage in a parched season. - T. E. Kalem
...kind of psychograph may explain and link these three plays. Picture an adolescent growing up in a small town, probably in the Middle West. While sheltering him, his parental home gives him no rooted sense of identity and fails to enfold him in a warm, unconditional love. Drafted into the army, he cherishes the camaraderie but loathes the authoritarian procedures and is broodily apprehensive about his own possible death in combat. As an innocent, he is startled by his introduction to evil, or deviant, modes of conduct. He is forced to wonder if his friendship for his fellow soldiers...
...number of image patterns persist and recur, forming a kind of psychograph of the way women are viewed in modern drama...