Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality: Reading from the Journal of Polymorphous Perversity

by Glenn C. Ellenbogen

Book Overview

Fact: One hundred percent of all dead patients showed a marked reluctance to pay their bills. Fact: Well over half of all Americans alive today have experienced childhood directly, a syndrome marked by a) dwarfism b) knowledge deficits and c) legume anorexia. Fact: When Ms. Cinderella left her glass slipper behind at the stroke of midnight, she was clearly acting in a state of rebellion against the dictatorial regimentation of the domineering fairy...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345347005
• ISBN13: 9780345347008
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Psychology Can Be Funny

I barely understood most of the jargon. What I do know is, psychiatrists often don't know what the hell they are talking about, and this book from an admitted psychiatrist is brave enough to admit it and lampoon the science of the mind as underdeveloped and shooting in the dark when it comes to diagnosis. The book is hilarious, covering childhood(reports suggest that most adults have experienced it), how to psychoanalyze the dead, and the parking habits of neurotics.

Insights on: Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality

For those with an understanding of modern mental health therapy approaches and psychological testing/examinations this is a great parody. It helps those in the helping arts take themselves a little less seriously. Hilarious and insightful from beginning to end!