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Title: a cold and shallow book
Review: This is a ludicrous cardboard account of psychiatric practice and of people who need psychiatric help. It seems as though the author gathered elsewhere a few short threads of fact, took them home and twisted them into personal pretzel shapes of mild soft porn. Definitely, a little learning is a dangerous thing and the archaic postulation of "penis envy" made me hoot. The narcissic adults were as unconvincing as paper dolls. Some of the material involving children actually seemed uncomfortably like the author's indulgence in private fantasy you hope he doesn't take beyond the printed page. It was hard to reconcile the author's self important tone with this immature and improbable story. Or maybe not. I was stuck in a place with absolutely nothing else to read. Zero stars.
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