Word: psychoanalyst
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wexler credits her father, now 83 and still a practicing psychoanalyst in Los Angeles, with motivating her on the day that he told her about her mother's illness and discussed the fact that she was at risk as well. "Practically in the same breath," she recalls, "he said, 'And we're going to fight it.' " He informed Nancy and her sister that he had started a group dedicated to curing Huntington's and had begun organizing workshops at which scientists could plan their attack on the still mysterious cause of the disease. "It was really therapeutic," Nancy says...
...probably be shocked to find this statement anywhere but in a Puritan manual of chastity or a 19th-century psychoanalyst's treatise on the hysterical opposite sex. Certainly no one today would say it openly...
Whew. Our resident psychoanalyst offered a few more theories in last week's 56-page Peninsula megaissue on the various evils of homosexuality. Wasinger explained that homosexuals are "mal-identified neurotics," adding that "when I look at homosexuals, it is obvious to me that they are not truly happy, no matter what facade they might display...
Coles credits psychoanalyst Erik Erikson for inspiring him to become a teacher. After returning to Boston from Mississippi, Coles became a section leader for Erikson, who was then teaching at the College...
...lack of outrage among those likely to be most affected stems in part from the tangled nature of the incident that prompted the trouble. In December 1983 the New Yorker ran a two-part profile by Malcolm of Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, a psychoanalyst who had lost his job as projects director of the Sigmund Freud Archives in New York City. Published the next year by Knopf as In the Freud Archives, Malcolm's report apparently allowed Masson to destroy himself with his own words: his self-description as "an intellectual gigolo," his plan to transform Anna Freud's house, after...