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...provides aid, comfort and inspiration to would-be assassins is also a matter of debate among psychiatrists. "These are lonely, alienated people who suddenly see an opportunity to become celebrities," says Dr. Judd Marmor, president of the American Psychiatric Association. "Publicity gives them an ego massage." Yet Psychiatrist Edward Stainbrook of the University of Southern California School of Medicine thinks press coverage has little to do with inciting potential assassins to pull the trigger. "They have much more personal, much more fantasy-like motivations than to call attention to themselves," he says. "News coverage does not mobilize a person...
University of Southern California Psychiatrist Edward Stainbrook attributes some of today's violence to the difference between this generation of black youths and their fathers. "The last black generation felt tremendously hostile too," he said, "but then there were parental restraints. Now biding your time is no longer enough. Angry defiance is acceptable...
...Howard of the San Fernando Valley Child Guidance Clinic: "If something bad happens, children feel responsible: maybe their bad thoughts caused it." Adults, too, can regress to atavistic fantasy. "Their first response is to think it's the wrath of God, maybe even the Apocalypse," says Dr. Edward Stainbrook of the University of Southern California...
...place to hide. "Mother Earth was good, reliable-and suddenly she betrays you," explains Greenson. "Parents are supposed to be towers of strength-and yet the child finds adults are fearful too. Home, the child's symbol of safety, has toppled in his mind." Sudden disaster, Stainbrook concludes, "destroys one's confidence in the orderliness of the world; people feel they can't predict their own futures...
...they nor their parents were harmed. People are advised to admit their fears, and to "deal with the reality of the situation." Explains Howard: "We emphasize how sturdy most houses are, that in most places only a few glasses were broken, that people are not as fragile as glasses." Stainbrook proposes more than just talk. Instead of closing off disaster areas, he says, authorities ought to "funnel people through on guided tours, so they can see what really happened and come to terms with distorting anxieties...