Word: psychos
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Homicidal. Made in imitation of Hitchcock's Psycho, it surpasses its model in structure, suspense and sheer nervous drive...
...poor child is terrified-apparently she didn't see Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, which included the same scene. She screams and wheels hysterically away. Her stepmother comes running. They go back to the summerhouse. The body is gone. "You poor dear," her stepmother says, "you've had a hallucination." And next morning the stepmother's doctor, a personable bachelor who comes to dinner almost every day, goes even further. "Your mind," he says gravely to the girl, "has suffered a blow which could affect it permanently...
...fearless eagerness of a child, knowing it to be intelligible--who demands straight lines, clear terms, precise definitions--who stands in full sunlight and has no use for the murky fog of the hidden, the secret, the unnamed, the furtively evocative, for any code of signals from the psycho-epistemology of guilt...
...Stanley still hasn't arived in Act I, Scene II, and we see instead a family reunion of all the Freuds. With the hugging and kissing, one is reminded of the Trapp Family Singers. But after that, the play settles down to an effective depiction of Freud's first psycho-analysis and his struggles to have his theories accepted...
...University's team of eleven psychiatrists and the psycho-social research unit will have "the most extensive facilities of any such group in the U.S.," Dr. Farnsworth pointed out. "Does this mean Harvard students are whackier than any others? No, it just means we place more emphasis than anyone else in this branch of medicine...