tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post8671199839971052746..comments2024-03-25T03:20:57.659-04:00Comments on My Daily Struggles: Letter to U.S. Secret Service -- April 19, 1995My Daily Struggleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-38352959868961560152011-05-09T09:40:11.987-04:002011-05-09T09:40:11.987-04:00"By analogy, imagine a situation in which a c..."By analogy, imagine a situation in which a coroner pronounces a man dead, yet states in the coroner's report that the corpse had a post-mortem temperature significantly higher than was was recorded prior to death."<br /><br />Psychoanalytically, this is an interesting analogy. I used the same analogy in "The Dream of the Blue Oxford" interpretation, where I compared a subject of testing to a corpse.<br /><br />"I receive a bill in the mail from the George Washington University Medical Center for psychological testing that had been performed in May 1994. I am angered because I had been told at the time of the testing that I would not be charged because the testing was being performed for didactic purposes. In view of the fact that my psychiatrist at GW, Suzanne M. Pitts, M.D., had told me that she had not been apprised of the test results, the testing had absolutely no therapeutic value. I thought: 'It's like billing a corpse for a didactic autopsy.'"<br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1263535891" rel="nofollow"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2009/10/dream-of-blue-oxford.html" rel="nofollow">http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2009/10/dream-of-blue-oxford.html</a>My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.com