Word: shrinker
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...manages to seem fresh as clouds boil around the head of an angry Celeste and magic potions glow with cosmic energy. Indeed, the fortune-telling visions of the astrologist and the odd herbal concoctions of the witch-doctor seem hardly stranger than the post-Freudian tactics of the head-shrinker...
...aversion to change. That still seems true today. Witness the current international flap over whether the Concorde supersonic passenger jet will be allowed to land at New York City's John F. Kennedy airport. Supporters of the Concorde hail the sleek, needle-nosed jet as a revolutionary globe-shrinker. Meanwhile, legions of determined opponents damn it as a threat to their community's quality of life and a menace to the world's environment...
...squealers run a gauntlet, brew up a batch of raisin jack and get high and try to seduce one another in a cell block called Queens Row. The character that Bruce called "the handsome but mixed-up prison doctor, H. B. Warner," has been replaced by a sissified head-shrinker whom the men lovingly refer to as "that faggot psychologist." The warden, usually portrayed as tough but sympathetic, is played as a brutal martinet by Frank Eyman, who is a real-life warden...
...Shrinker. The story beats with the low but constant pulse of loss and dislocation-qualities that are found in greater measure in The Balloon, a wistful meld of love story and art appreciation, and in The Dolt, which tells of a writer who cannot think of middles for his stories. The Dolt is also an oblique comment on the limits of conventional storytelling forms and a squint at the generation gap: the writer's son is an 8-ft.-tall hippie draped with a scrape woven out of 200 transistor radios, all turned on and tuned in to different...
James Coburn is a New York head-shrinker who has everything-a luxurious office where he practices on a Chinese gong between couchings, a patient (Godfrey Cambridge) who is a killer for the Central Emergency Agency, a delicious young bedmate (Joan Delaney), and the biggest smile in the American Psychoanalytic Association. He also has a psychiatrist of his own, who tells him one day that Coburn has mysteriously been picked to unburden the mind of no less a personage than the President of the United States. Presumably, as Kings once had confessors, Presidents now need analysts...