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Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri May 31 14:24:12 PDT 2002


R wrote:


>if anyone was wondering how people like ayn rand, shrub, chairman
>greenspan, richard nixon or henry kissinger, get that way ....

Not sure what you mean by that, but if it's that those folks had mothers who felt like the mother in Winnicott's list, well that's not his point. His point is that even good mothers (or what he called elsewhere good-enough mothers) feel those hateful things, and the failure to recognize that in the context of what is an affectionate relationship overall can cause problems.

The larger point of the article is that psychiatrists hate their psychotic patients, which is why they shocked them and cut up their brains in 1949 and earlier.

Doug



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