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Nowadays movie stars come equipped not only with gowns by Adrian and makeup by Westmore but with insight by Freud. Nobody talks more about Kim's suffering psyche than Kim herself. She has given hundreds of interviews with a couch-side slant, readily analyzes "my inferiority complex" and "my insecurity" and, digging back, rattles on about her childhood as if she were the only adult who ever...
...Dreams. While giving credit to Freud as a pioneer, Rogers vigorously resists the tendency of analysts to worship the father-figure of psychoanalysis, and the parallel tendency to put the theory and the method of treatment ahead of all else, so that every patient is fitted to a Procrustean couch. Rogers may have exaggerated the differences between his method and that of other therapists who follow Freud but with modifications. Radical Rogers likes to talk about "treatment with no couches, no dream interpretations...
...managing editor got off the couch and started fumbling for his tie. "How does it feel?" he said...
...week, when he would sit in a tiny office and talk about the lonely task of writing with anyone who cared to drop in. The student who wanted to learn about himself found that a talk with Faulkner was as revealing as a session on the analyst's couch. "He reminded me of things I wanted to forget," said one senior. "You have to open up your insides and put them out on the table and examine them with Faulkner...
...proudest boast is that he was always a friend of the poor. The Christmas basket, the $10 loan, the stay of eviction, the city job-all bought him votes, but also made his headquarters a "school, employment agency, court of domestic relations and poor man's 'psychiatric couch.'" He was the voice of the poor, too, railing down the years against the Brahmins of Back Bay, State Street and Harvard. Curley's long memory bears the imprint of the Yankee sign, "No Irish Need Apply," that was so frequent in his youth. Though he had little...