What's up with all the rude people? Viewers of a Boston television station wanted to know, and the reporter assigned to investigate ended up on former APsaA president Dr. Robert Pyle's psychoanalytic couch in order to find the answers to his troubling questions about human nature.
Why do trash collectors throw around the cans? Why do drivers fail to signal a left turn? And why do smokers drop their butts in the gutter? Take a look to find Pyles' deft answers.
I have argued that psychoanalysts can say something interesting and useful about just about everything human. In answering the questions about the garbage cans, cigarette butts and rude drivers, Pyles managed to work in the concepts of isolation, grandiosity, narcissitic resentment, the psychical effects of ostracism and low status, and the healing balm of community. Not bad for a handful of seconds on the tube.
By the way, when you look at the video clip, take a look at the unusal and beautiful psychoanalytic couch, which was handmade and designed by APsaA member Harvey Rich, M.D.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
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