Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...task of the liberal psychotherapist proceeds logically from this view of people. The therapist must deal with those humans who cannot restrain the characteristic primitive urges of the species. He must reconstruct the individual's defenses, enabling the Freudian neurotic to hold back the tide of violence which lurks behind people's social veneer...
...focus of this clinical dramatization is Janice (Sandy Ratcliff), young daughter of a lower-middle-class British family, who has been more than usually bruised by the trials of adolescence. Her parents, their marriage long a stalemate of uneasily repressed hostility, commit her to the care of a therapist whose attempts to reach Janice are thwarted by his dismissal from the hospital. Wednesday's Child strains credulity here. The doctor's reasonable, low-key therapy sessions hardly seem radical enough to get him dismissed even from Bedlam. Janice, submitted to electric shock and heavy drugs, retreats ever deeper...
...opinion, the drug culture is yet another spur to sexual activity. "Once you've taken drugs and broken that rule, it is easier to break all the others," says a senior at the University of Pittsburgh. "Drugs and sexual exploration go hand in hand," insists Charlotte Richardson, a lay therapist in Atlanta. But many doctors doubt that drug use increases sexual experimentation (whether marijuana increases sexual pleasure is even a matter of some dispute). Stanford Psychiatrist Donald Lunde, among others, believes that drugs do not lead to sex but that depression causes many teen-agers to try both...
...Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness," writes one of the contributors to The Radical Therapist, a kind of underground paper for counterculture therapists. Madness "reinvents our selves," Cooper explains, speaking of "mourning for the madness I never had." Norman Brown (Life Against Death) has spoken of the "blessing," the "supernatural powers" that come only with madness. To such post-Freudians, even Freud has, as Leslie Fiedler put it, "come to seem too timid, too puritanical, and above all too rational for the second half of the 20th century...
...this moppet Red River, it is the Duke's responsibility to nudge the boys to manhood. This involves him not only as a trail boss and referee but as a speech therapist. He cures one of the kids of a bad stutter by riling him until the boy can call Duke half a dozen kinds of a son of a bitch without a single stumble...