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...eventually Wolfe did unburden himself to a friend, Paul McHugh, the psychiatrist in chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. "I called and told him roughly what was bothering me and asked him if he could recommend someone I could see in Manhattan. He said, 'The last I heard, trains are still running between there and Baltimore. Why not come see me?' I did, and we talked a lot over the phone, and by early April I was back to normal." But the memory of Wolfe's trying time is echoed in the new novel, when Charlie Croker...
...talk-show hosts and the self-loving blather of the chattering classes, is the confessional mode of speech a vice? "The need to unburden was a selfish need" goes a line in the English author Nicola Barker's new novel, Wide Open, and ultimately the novel addresses the question of the line between the need for revelation and the desire for indulgence. Even as characters are drawn out of their shells, nothing is ever fully 'wide open...
When Foster arrived that evening, Thomases thought he looked a little better. He mentioned that he and Lisa were going to get away for the weekend. But then he began to unburden himself...
With Anderson free, the harrowing tales that were once too risky to tell for fear of bringing harm to the remaining Western hostages may now be told. True, the final installments must still await the freeing of two German captives. But Anderson's release last week seemed to unburden other American ex-hostages of their "survivor's guilt" and uncork fresh memories of physical pain and mental anguish. If a single thread ran through the recollections, it was the abject despair each man experienced when confined in solitary, and the mutual appreciation, gratitude and respect each felt for his fellow...
...Houston cronies when he can and tries to schedule some seminars in Las Vegas and Reno so he can play the slot machines: he craves the excitement, not the winnings. For nine years he has been involved with a small men's support group in Houston, where he can unburden himself for his own sake, not that of others. "I need a place where I can be real," he says, but adds, "Not that I'm not real...