Ich bin ein [Texas-Born] Berliner

My psychoanalytic avocation (a total of seven years of institutional post-analysis “informatory” training – in American terms seminar-auditing – at two of Berlin’s leading psychoanalytic institutes) has coincidentally just led me to stumble upon a paper by the New York psychoanalyst Jack Drescher, M.D., printed in the professional publication Psychiatric Times, and indirectly relevant to the recent tragi-farce of Idaho’s Sen. Larry Craig, busted at the Minneapolis airport men’s room on a charge of soliciting sex with the man in the adjoining toilet booth, whose responsive extended hand contained the badge identifying him as a totally unexpected police officer.

Rather than risk even a possibility of my in any way distorting what Dr. Drescher had on his mind at the date of that publication (October 2004), let me make the entire paper available here to anyone interested.  In connection with the Craig case, Dr. Drescher – who wants it known that he has never examined Sen. Craig – has this to say about this short paper: “The Psychiatric Times article is written for a professional audience but it might be of interest to non-professionals as well.”