Word: psychoanalyst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other than Sigmund Freud, and he sent it to famed Viennese Playwright Arthur Schnitzler on May 14, 1922, the eve of Schnitzler's 60th birthday. The letter (printed in Germany in 1955 but not previously published in the U.S.) has now been brought to light by Los Angeles Psychoanalyst Herbert I. Kupper, to make a point about Freud and his theories. It suggests, Dr. Kupper told the American Psychoanalytic Association, not only that Freud was capable of believing in the mystical concept of the Doppelgänger,* but that his teachings themselves had a striking Doppelgänger...
...says Manhattan Psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler. In Homosexuality: Disease or Way of Life? (Hill and Wang; $5), published last week, he swiftly demolishes some popular misconceptions. The common definition of a homosexual as one who "derives his sexual excitement and satisfaction from a person of his own sex" is less than a half-truth, says Bergler, because 1) it accepts a kind of parity between homosexuals and heterosexuals, "and hence becomes a useful argument in the homosexuals' advocacy of their perversion"; 2) it ignores the fact that certain personality traits, partly or entirely psychopathic, are specifically and exclusively characteristic...
...emotional-venture capital he once had into 3% matrimonial bonds; their grandson, a mobile Davy Crockett brat; a one-shot bohemian playwright who carries a pants pocket he once tore from Ty Cobb's uniform as a lucky charm; a transvestite and his keeper, a German-born quack psychoanalyst who unnerves his Midwestern patients by drowning out their confessionals with his record player and hissing: "Moww-Tzzzzzzarrrrt isss spikink...
...gate to smear a little more lipstick on. Already half an hour late for a mass reception in her honor, she ducked into a ladies' room and was not seen again for 45 minutes. She was even two hours late for her own appendectomy. She went to a psychoanalyst about her lateness; a friend says it was no good because she always walked in when the hour was almost over...
...treatment. Protestant and Jewish faiths have lent their support to joint enterprises in psychiatry and religion, such as the National Academy of Religion and Mental Health (TIME, April 9). Jesuits take part in seminars at the famed Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kans. Next fall Union Theological Seminary will install Psychoanalyst Earl Loomis Jr., 35, as its first professor of psychiatry...