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Manhattan Psychoanalyst Natalie Shainess adds that bisexuality and homosexuality are symptoms of "developmental damages" during childhood. A homosexual, she notes, grows up distrusting the opposite sex; a bisexual is in a sense in a worse plight because he distrusts both sexes. Moreover, the constant ricocheting from one sex to the other, says Shainess, can create unstable friendships as well as a chaotic homelife. If there are children involved, this may confuse their sense of sexual identity. She asks: "Is this invitation for anything-goes sex helping human beings lead more satisfying lives?" Her answer...
...professional who agrees in part with Chesler is Manhattan Psychoanalyst Natalie Shainess: "Many psychiatrists are unconsciously contemptuous of women," she says. Isaiah Zimmerman, a psychologist in Washington, D.C., doubts that therapists of his age (44) can entirely overcome the effects of their rearing in a male-oriented society. "My generation won't make it," he admits. All the same, alerted by his wife, daughters and patients to minor signs of his own bias (habitual use of the pronoun he instead of she, for instance), Zimmerman reports that he has brought about some "moderately profound changes" in himself...
...their new book has stirred less controversy than their earlier work, perhaps because its intended professional audience has not yet read it. Nonetheless, the Masters and Johnson approach has been sharply criticized by some medical authorities. Manhattan Psychiatrist Natalie Shainess contends that the authors' coldly technical attitude toward therapy robs sex of its joy and meaning. Existential Psychoanalyst Rollo May, who was less than enthusiastic about the authors' research into the mechanics of coital function, says that Masters and Johnson are fighting puritanism with "the new technology"?a dangerous weapon because it contributes to the depersonalization...