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Allen Ginsberg--Passim at 8:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Strange Brew Coffeehouse--Hilles penthouse at 8 p.m. Roger Rosen and Ron Mirsky--Sword-in-the-Stone Coffeehouse at 9:15 9:15 p.m. Larry Friedman--Back Room at The Idler...
Silverberg, Rosen & Leon...
...Rosen condemns the move away from stoic, traditional analysis...
Imagine for a while the situation of a fellow student suddenly cracking up. After reading Rosen you'll be uncomfortably aware of how psychobabble neutralizes some of your vocabulary. Nevertheless, imagine the person (maybe under academic pressure, maybe losing a lover) sleepless, getting awful stomach-aches, or turning unaccustomedly anti-social. He or she traipses to UHS where the M.D.'s initial response might simply be "Go play some tennis, relax...
This book is a somewhat patronizing but generally fair examination of a topic that notably agitates otherwise calm people. It would certainly help the popular reputation of traditional therapists if they presented their findings in such a lucid fashion as the author of Psychobabble. Rosen quotes Gore Vidal that "most of our writers tend to be recorders," yet he himself could never be mistaken for one of that dreary band. Unlike the psychobabblers he decries, he doesn't practice what Jacoby called (and Rosen recalled) "the monotonous discovery of common sense." Instead, he reminds us, skeptically but never petuiantly, that...