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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Goodreads, Amazon.com, PsychoAnalysis with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'PsychoAnalysis'
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conversations.value: Do you know the first three paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: PsychoAnalysis
  It is true enough that it often does no harm for an analyst to be thus conventionally "human." Still, there are times when his being "human" under such circumstances can be harmful, and one cannot always know in advance when those times will be. As an example, for his analyst to express sympathy for a patient who has just lost a close relative may make it more difficult than it would otherwise be for the patient to express pleasure or spite or exhibitionistic satisfaction over the loss.
  Freud's recommendation that the analyst himself be analyzed has become an inflexible and central fact of analytic education. The "candidate," as the student is called, is assigned a "training analyst," with whom he has an analysis that—at least in theory—is no different from ordinary therapeutic analysis, though certain subtle differences are inevitable. In a grim voice, Aaron went on to tell me of a traumatic event that had marked his arrival in New York from B——.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about taking, indeed.
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conversations.value: PsychoAnalysis
  It is true enough that it often does no harm for an analyst to be thus conventionally "human. " Still, there are times when his being "human" under such circumstances can be harmful, and one cannot always know in advance when those times will be. As an example, for his analyst to express sympathy for a patient who has just lost a close relative may make it more difficult than it would otherwise be for the patient to express pleasure or spite or exhibitionistic satisfaction over the loss. 
  This is taking respect for individual experience and generosity of spirit toward human frailty very far indeed. 
  Freud's recommendation that the analyst himself be analyzed has become an inflexible and central fact of analytic education. The "candidate," as the student is called, is assigned a "training analyst," with whom he has an analysis that—at least in theory—is no different from ordinary therapeutic analysis, though certain subtle differences are inevitable. In a grim voice, Aaron went on to tell me of a traumatic event that had marked his arrival in New York from B——.
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conversations.value: Do you know three more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: AT OUR NEXT MEETING, I CONFESSED TO AARON THAT I sometimes got tired of hearing him talk—that I rather resented always listening to him and never talking about myself.
  AT OUR NEXT MEETING, AARON AND I GOT INTO A DISCUSSION of "analyzability," a technical term coined to express the idea of some innate capacity (or incapacity) for being analyzed, which would account for the fact that some people swim when thrown into the choppy waters of analysis, while others have to be dragged, coughing and spitting, to shore. If one could detect and head off the "unanalyzables" before they went into analysis, much futile effort, wasted money, bitter disappointment, and even tragedy could be averted. But to date no Geiger counter of analyzability has been devised, and, as Joan Erle and Daniel A. Goldberg wrote in 1979, in a paper called "Problems in the Assessment of Analyzability," "what seemed relatively straightforward at first became increasingly complicated."
  The attitude that Limentani deplores was subtly implicit in the "Widening Scope" paper, where Stone advocated spreading the wealth of psychoanalysis beyond the safe-bet hysterics and obsessionals to the dicey psychotics and "borderlines" (as patients have come to be called who are more severely afflicted than ordinary neurotics but are not mad. The designation remains controversial). "From my point of view," Stone wrote, "psychoanalysis remains as yet the most powerful of all psychotherapeutic instruments, the 'fire and iron,' as Freud called it." While granting that "the difficulties increase and the expectations of success diminish in a general way" as the outer reaches of psychological disorder are approached, Stone insisted that "there is no absolute barrier" and that "the 'borderline' patient under certain special conditions may be a better patient in the long run, for all of the intrinsic difficulties, than the hysteric." In fact, Stone went on to say, "It is basically a greater error to use psychoanalysis for trivial or incipient or reactive illnesses, or in persons with feeble personality resources, than for serious chronic illnesses when these occur in persons of current or potential strength."
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conversations.value: Do you know the last paragraph?
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conversations.value: From time to time, I receive a copy of what is described as a "Curriculum Vitae," giving the qualifications of a candidate for election. Documents of this kind fill me with blood-curdling feelings of anxiety and remorse. How on earth could I fill up one of them? A discreditable academic career with the barest of B.A. degrees, no medical qualifications, no knowledge of the physical sciences, no experience of anything except third-rate journalism. The only thing in my favor was that at the age of thirty I wrote a letter out of the blue to Freud, asking him if he would take me on as a student.