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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Auletta, former politico, now columnist for the New York Daily News and commentator for New York public television, wrote The Streets Were Paved With Gold to sort out how the self-proclaimed greatest city in the world self-destructed. His book is the best overview and analysis yet to appear of the four years of near bankruptcy and the circumstances that led to that debacle. Auletta's discussion avoids hackneyed liberal or conservative interpretations and provides convincing explanations of where the fault for New York's troubles lies...
However, when compared to other developing nations such as India--whose people have a life expectancy in the low 50s--China has had "some sort of success" in feeding its people, Eberstadt said...
Facile condemnations of this sort of thing clearly won't do. It's hard to get a handle on the punk fascination with Nazism: Elvis Costello talks about emotional fascism, Johnny Rotten sings about Belsen, and the swastika is the dominant icon in punk life, but what does it all add up to? With Rotten, it may just be the shock value, as when he used to tell people he cut out his hemmorhoids with a razor. And just how is one supposed to react to something like Belsen, anyway...
...scattered across the country and told them to behave normally. Many inmates quickly realized that the eight impostors were sane because the would-be patients kept taking notes. But the staff psychiatrists never did. Says Rosenhan: "Any diagnostic process that lends itself so readily to massive errors of this sort cannot be a very reliable...
...That sort of dilution of the Freudian creed is already far advanced, and some critics predict that classical psychoanalysis will soon be extinct. The 1976 survey by the American Psychoanalytic Association showed that 70% of its members' patients were already receiving some kind of therapy other than psychoanalysis. Since there is no agreement on what works, Freudians?along with neo-Freudians, psychologists, counselors and Pop therapists?are all increasingly eclectic, borrowing bits and pieces of one another's methods. Even at hospitals still dominated by Freudian theory, psychiatric residents now get far more training in neurology, biochemistry, hypnosis and behavior...