Psychology and Other Stories (40 page)

202
  “
let the biographers worry, we have no desire to make it too easy for them
!” Freud,
Letters
, April 28, 1885, p. 141.

The Blood-Brain Barrier

223
  Epigraphs: Meyer Levin,
Compulsion.
(Simon and Schuster, 1956.) p. 342 (of 495). L.S. Hearnshaw,
Cyril Burt, Psychologist.
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1979.) p. 261 (of 370).

218
  
Do you have any objection to me calling you Professor
? Thomas Szasz,
Psychiatric Justice.
(Macmillan, 1965.) p. 204.

228
  “
If I said to you a table and a chair
… Parts of this interview are adapted from Ronald Markman (with Dominick Bosco),
Alone With The Devil: Famous Cases of a Courtroom Psychiatrist.
(Doubleday, 1989.) pp. 88-89.

238
  
NOTAL
: This rather striking typo is borrowed from Jay Ziskin,
Coping With Psychiatric and Psychological Testimony.
(Law and Psychology Press, 1981.) vol. 2, p. 240. My courtroom dialogue owes much to the sample case in volume 2, which reads almost like a novel. Highly recommended.

241
  
Orson Welles
: Dialogue from the movie
Compulsion
(1959), based on the novel by Meyer Levin, which was itself based on the famous Loeb and Leopold case.

266
  
great physiologist
: Charles Sherrington,
Man On His Nature.
(Cambridge University Press, 1951.) p. 178 (of 300). In a famous passage he compares the awakening brain to “an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one—a shifting harmony of subpatterns. It is as if the Milky Way entered upon some cosmic dance.”

267
  
Is the meter running while you are in court
? Ziskin,
Coping
, vol. 2, p. 334.

273
  “
The main thing is you don't treat sex like a big deal
…” This sentiment is Freud's: “What is really important is that children should never get the idea that one wants to make more of a secret of the facts of sexual life than of any other matter which is not yet accessible to their understanding.” “The Sexual Enlightenment of Children,” in
Standard Edition
, vol. 9, p. 138.

280
  
I think it would be difficult for anyone to go on practicing psychology if they were wrong most of the time.
Ziskin,
Coping
, vol. 2, p. 55.

Notes on Sources

293
  Epigraph: Liam Hudson,
The Cult of the Fact.
(Jonathan Cape, 1972.) pp. 163-164.

297-301
The citations to the works of Jim Bird—and Barton Q. Barnard—are fictional; Jim Bird and Barton Q. Barnard are fictional.

So, of course, are all the characters in this book; so, for that matter, am I.