JOLLY DAYS

Analyzing the Analyst

Some suspect that many mental health professionals are often the ones most in need of their own services. This review of a book about a particularly dire case, a psychoanalyst named Masud Khan, makes you wonder why people can't see what is presented — why rep trumps cred?

According the reviewer the author is an enabler:

If I were a snob, a liar, a drunk, a philanderer, an anti-Semite, a violent bully, a poseur and a menace to the vulnerable, I would want Linda Hopkins to write my biography…But [the author] does not persuade me that English bigotry brought about his downfall…