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Usage examples of psychoanalyst.

In short, we are psychoanalysts with others but situationists with ourselves.

Well, as normal as two psychoanalysts whose son has his own webzine and whose daughter has her own cable-access television show can be.

Phil watched with amusement as the psychoanalyst sharply scanned Juno, Sacheverell and Mary.

He thought of Bruno, who that morning had defiled the Greek temple with his opinion of eurythmics, and Frank, who was on his fifth psychoanalyst and had seizures in unsuitable places when his will was crossed.

The dramatic page which she devoted to this sybilline phrase must be read to gauge the full imagination of the psychoanalyst, who had no qualms about basing the whole of her Oedipean edifice on feet of clay: a note at the foot of a page, freely interpreted and promoted to the rank of a crucial event.

Music ceased to be a distilment of life and became, for a lot of people, a substitute for life -- a substitute for a sea-voyage, or the ecstasies of sainthood, or being raped by a cannibal king, or even for an hour with a psychoanalyst or a good movement of the bowels.

He was writing, he told me, an article for the _Psychopathological Review_--that's probably wrong, but it was something on that order-- condemning the hypothesis of an unconscious or subconscious mind as a snare and a delusion, a pitfall for the unwary and a set of false whiskers for the charlatan, a gap in psychology's roof that made it impossible, or nearly, for the sound scholar to smoke out such faddists as, for exaniple, the psychoanalyst and the behaviorist, or words to that effect.

Some psychoanalysts define all mental illnesses as incest-obsessions, you know.