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Word: ressner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...title refers to the month when, in Ressner's flippant vision, all the analysts go on vacation, leaving their patients to fret or go crazy. The story is a cycle of summer deaths and September rebirths of the therapeutic relationship. August is also a kind of wish fulfillment for patients who want to be the only person in the doctor's life yet long to find out where the analyst goes when the 50-minute hour is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shrinking | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

Many of the characters are shrewdly if harshly drawn stereotypes. Only Dawn is wholly likable, and her situation is so extreme that the reader pays a credulity tax with almost every chapter. Dr. Shinefeld, effective as a therapist, is a lulu of a loser as a woman. Ressner's treatment suggests that what another writer called the Impossible Profession is still beyond easy analysis. -By William A. Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shrinking | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

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