Word: freudians
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Psychiatrists were once the power brokers of mental health care. With full medical-school training and M.D.s after their names, they controlled the prestigious institutes of Freudian psychoanalysis. They determined whether patients would be committed to mental hospitals. And they had the exclusive right to prescribe mind-altering medications. But in the past several years psychologists, who have Ph.D.s but no medical school on their resumes, have been chipping away at the psychiatrists' domain...
...word "anal" gratuitously to describe people whom, at a normal school, would be described as "uptight." Unlike the typical Harvard student, I do not feel the need to demonstrate a facile knowledge of Freudian psychoanalytic theory at every possible opportunity by making a disturbingly graphic comparison between someone's behavior and a bodily orifice...
...with autistic children have been made to bear the burden and the guilt for the misfortune. Appropriately, the setting is Chicago, home of the late psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, whose judgmental views on the causes of autism hang over the Eberhardt family. Underscoring the theme is David Eberhardt, an orthodox Freudian psychiatrist. Mother Lainey navigates with less theory and more emotion -- no small undertaking with six children, including the autistic Randall...
Virtues outweighed by the vices? Is this a typographical error or a Freudian slip? No doubt most Harvard administrators see their jobs somewhat differently. I would suspect the former, since he offers his comments as a "defense" of tenure, but one never knows. Other errors of this kind are not infrequent...
...Freudian theorists would have the best, and the most meaningful, nightmares about my grandfather's encroachment of their territory. These critics spend their entire careers picking apart literature to find hidden symbols of sexual repression. The snake in the Garden of Eden? A phallic symbol. Moby Dick? A phallic symbol. The Washington Monument? A phallic symbol...