As the title of Mr. Gross's book suggests, he doesn't think much of modern
psychiatry, which in his view is neglecting the comparatively few people who really need its services, in favor of "taking care of the well people on Park Avenue or Miami Beach." Dr. Tamarkin maintains that on the whole the profession is honest about differentiating between clinical conditions and normal grief or anxiety. Mr. Buckley serves as referee. NRT (alleging that Mr. Gross has misquoted certain people in his book): "Dr. Greenson is not aloof, according to him. He talks to his patients regularly--" MG: "Excuse me --" NRT: "--and if you have some strange idea of--" MG: "If Dr. Greenson were to admit this in public he'd be discharged from the American Psychoanalytic--" NRT: "That's--" MG: "--because classical analysis is based on incognito, as you know. Aloofness and--" NRT: "That's hard and extreme [and] rarely practiced, Martin, and he wouldn't be kicked out of the American Psychoanalytic-- That's foolishness you're saying." MG: "No, that's not true. Dr. Greenson has written a text which says specifically, and please read the text again, that psychoanalysis is a cool, detached, objective analysis. It is not normal psychotherapy, which Dr. Freud says was dross, and
psychoanalysis was golden." WFB: "Let me try to get concrete."
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