Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face of it, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris promises a Russian version of Star Trek. Russian physicist, Gibaryan, a psychologist and "solarist" to determine what has made over 80 scientists desert or die aboard the space-ship Solaris, a lab set up to study an oozing, brain-colored body of liquid on another planet. Yet Gibaryan soon confronts the likelihood that the ocean Solaris may actually represent his own subconscious, and Tarkovsky appears to be attempting the same sort of space consciousness analogy Kubrick hinted at in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Maybe...
...Scarlett flits around with nothing to worry about except how small her waist is. But when it came time, Scarlett wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty. The Southern woman may seem soft and sweet, but she can do almost anything." Irma Lee Shepherd, a psychologist and professor at Georgia State University, agrees. Says she: "Girls who might whisper, simper and have the vapors at a dance often were very strong women who knew Latin and Greek and had developed strong wills from their fathers. There was the external myth and the role separation, but underneath there...
Pauline Glance, a Georgia State University psychologist, thinks that the tradition of being both gentle and strong gives Southern women some advantage over their Northern sisters, who more commonly feel that the two qualities conflict. "Women in both the North and South are struggling with problems of their feelings about themselves," she says. "I think Southern women will find them easier to solve...
Charles P. Whitlock, associate dean of the Faculty and a clinical psychologist who was dean of the College during those years, suggests another element to what he considered a College-wide depression. Freshmen and sophomores from the early '70s, and the high school graduates who followed them, were tired of political activity as well as worried about their futures. But even as they gave up the political goals of their immediate predecessors, he says, they felt guilty. "They came after a group of heroes," Whitlock says, "and they knew they weren't going to be anything of the sort...
David is hardly alone. Narcissism has become a leading topic of research in psychoanalytic circles, and one of the most common diagnoses. "You used to see people coming in with hand-washing compulsions, phobias and familiar neuroses," says Clinical Psychologist Sheldon Bach. "Now you see mostly narcissists." Adds Psychoanalyst Herbert Hendin, author of The Age of Sensation: "Probably two-thirds to three-quarters of psychoanalytic patients have narcissistic problems...