I remember an Air Force major who all of a sudden turned up on my front doorstep and wouldn't tell me his name. It was very weird. I did - I went along with this just as a gag almost. But I processed him every afternoon for an hour, and at the end of the hour-because he couldn't give me his name and address, you see, and it was all not-know anyhow, and everybody- why, he'd hand me a fifty-dollar bill. Which is kind of-very amusing-handing me money anyhow-because I don't-normally will take the … [Read more...] about Lecture: Seminar: Withholds (1961)
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Lecture: Two-Way Comm And The Present Time Problem (1954)
Now, there’s a thing called a confessional which was the basic psychotherapy that man had. The Catholic Church rather monopolized this, they, I don’t know if you know how a confessional is carried on or not but it’s a… I could go into this in considerable detail but won’t. But the priest sits in a little booth and he has a curtain drawn there and he is not visible to the communicant or the penitent or whatever they call him. And he’s not visible, and this person sort of whispers his various sins … [Read more...] about Lecture: Two-Way Comm And The Present Time Problem (1954)