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...that very tough undertaking-a play with but three characters and one situation. Despite amusing lines, funny moments, and more champagne drinking than in any stage work since The Merry Widow, the show is only spottily festive".' To prolong the journey from the psychoanalytic to the nuptial couch through three acts, the play has to detour, go in for vaudeville, toss dull cracks after bright ones, try to make the loud pedal sound like a new tune. The real honors go to Donald Cook. No one so deftly conveys well-bred distaste or alarm-looking as though...
...membership in the West European Union; they are stoutly antiCommunist, yet they line up on Moscow's side in its fight against the Paris accords. At a time when West Germany, and most, though not all, of its workers are enjoying unprecedented prosperity, the SPD still tends to couch its cries for social justice in obsolete Marxist phrases which catch no fire...
...people think that the confessional and the analyst's couch are in competition for man's soul. Thus when the newly formed McAuley Psychiatric Clinic in San Francisco's Roman Catholic St. Mary's Hospital sent out invitations to a forum combining priests and psychiatrists, the response was overwhelming. Close to 400 priests and doctors packed St. Mary's auditorium to see what would happen. What happened was that the two groups got along as though they were made for each other...
Despite the patient's age, the orthodox Freudian psychoanalyst would have set him on a couch and invited him to talk on in "free association," especially about his earliest childhood. Purpose: to find either a specific shock related to his giddiness, or some emotional repressed stress...
...Jungian analyst uses no couch, but has the patient seated in a chair and facing him. This setup represents a meeting of equals: unlike Freud, who wanted the analyst to keep in the background,*† Jung believes the doctor must fully share the emotional experience of analysis...