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...Newton resided, Brodie graduated Phy Beta Kappa from Boston University, received his M.D.and Ph.D.from the same institution. P>He co-authored a pioneering article on mothers of "school-phobic children" in 1974 and has published numerous other articles in other scientific magazines...
Unnerved by hazardous work? Then steer clear of government jobs in Boston. City Clerk Barry Hynes, 47, reports that he has "nightmares relating to city council meetings gone out of control." The rigors of his job are such that he suffers phobic reactions when he boards the subway to come to work and again when he gets in the city hall elevator. Hynes has applied for a lifetime disability pension of $28,800 annually. Government service has also taken a toll on Richard Sinnott, 55, the former city censor. In charge of issuing permits for rock concerts, Sinnott occasionally took...
...European neighbors'. The big worry, also as usual, is rising inflation: though prices increased a mere 2.6% in 1978, inflation so far this year has been running at an annual rate of 7.4%, a figure that might be cheered elsewhere but is regarded with concern in this inflation-phobic nation. German exports are surging and now account for fully 12% of total world trade-the same...
Freudians, of course, do just that. In their view, agoraphobia, like all phobias, is a symbolic expression of deeply threatening sexual and/or aggressive urges. One difference, says Manhattan Psychoanalyst Walter Stewart, is that agoraphobics are "generally angrier and sicker" than other phobics. Why are most agoraphobics female? Los Angeles Psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson believes that men generally deal with anxiety by compulsively facing it. "If they are afraid of violence, they may become addicted to football, play it, see it again and again. Women are basically phobic; men are basically counterphobic...
Robert Seidenberg of Syracuse is one analyst who has bought the feminist argument. Says he: "We are confronted with the paradox that women are declared phobic when they exhibit anxiety in public places where custom, until yesterday, had prohibited them from entering. If one replaces the idea that the woman had the desire to sleep with father with the thought that she wanted to work with him in his downtown office, more salutary results might be obtained...