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"Tm kiH0Philip F.D. Rubovits-Seitz, 83, who died of pneumonia May 31 at Sibley Memorial Hospital, was a distinctly unstuffy psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who practiced and taught in Indiana, Illinois and, most recently, Washington.心理学空间:FArTW@GTDr. Rubovits-Seitz, the son of a doctor who made Arctic explorations, spent much of his career studying the methodology of clinical interpretation. While some in the mental health field view psychoanalysis as self-justifying and beyond validation, he viewed psychoanalysis as an interpretative discipline akin to social sciences and archaeology. He studied how one can make accurate interpretations, for example, by deconstructing a symptom to get at its marrow.
"[eS)u\ C%Cf8s0心理学空间2a:t[a9?#S*? Quite conventional in appearance most of the time, he also liked getting inside the mind of social rebels, which he knew sometimes required an adjustment of image.
7KM&y/lJI0w@"i0Cm!A`!p6iR[g"^;\v0 With his black turtlenecks, sunglasses and leather bracelets, he called himself the "hippie shrink" when his patients included members of the Chicago counterculture in the 1960s. The look was not phony; he was a motorcycle enthusiast fond of precision riding in competitions with English trial motorbikes and off-road enduro motorbikes.
Kh/[8cz+S^0心理学空间irb4H*P6L`5V Dr. Rubovits-Seitz was a devotee of Sigmund Freud, the neurologist who crafted theories of psychoanalysis involving interpretation of dreams, repressed memories and conflicts within the psyche. Freud's work often accented sexual development and drives and unconscious behavior.