Title: Sheehy Proves Her Point
Product review: I don't get all the fuss about Sheehy's work being psychobabble. The writer who introduced that word to the language, R. Rosen, defines it as something very different: writing or talk that uses jargon from psychiatry of psychotherapy without particular accuracy or relevance.Ms. Sheehy almost never resorts to jargon - that's what makes her work so accessible and so useful to psychiatrists and psychotherapists themselves - including myself. Where she does use a psychiatric term, "dissociative identities," she is quoting "a highly qualified mental health professional who works too close to the white house to be identified." If the author had been able to name her source - let's say it was a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Hospital - it would have had more credibility. But she probably would have aliented her source, and I imagine she's too smart to betray a shrink!
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