Are you seeing a psychiatrist?’ as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was a compliment. It meant, ‘One can plainly see you are sensitive, intense, and interesting, and therefore neurotic.’ Only the dullest of clods trudged around without a neurosis.
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