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  • Lennon on Psychoanalysis, 1970

    From Norbert K@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 18 05:54:28 2022
    Howard Smith: Had either one of you been in psychoanalysis before?

    Lennon: No, I would never go for that kind of jazz. I think that most analysis is just symptomatic where you just talk about yourself and I don't need to do that because I've done a lot of it with reporters. This [Primal Scream Therapy] seemed like
    something else. I've never had any time for psychiatrists and those people because I think they're cracked and crazy.

    -- from a 1970 Village Voice article conducted by Howard Smith

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  • From geoff@21:1/5 to Norbert K on Thu May 19 09:04:25 2022
    On 19/05/2022 12:54 am, Norbert K wrote:

    -- from a 1970 Village Voice article conducted by Howard Smith

    Howard Smith: Had either one of you been in psychoanalysis before?

    Lennon: . This [Primal Scream Therapy] seemed like something else.

    Yep.

    I've never had any time for psychiatrists and those people because I
    think they're cracked and crazy.

    Pot/kettle ?!!!

    geoff

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  • From Norbert K@21:1/5 to geoff on Thu May 19 04:23:01 2022
    On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 5:04:34 PM UTC-4, geoff wrote:
    On 19/05/2022 12:54 am, Norbert K wrote:

    -- from a 1970 Village Voice article conducted by Howard Smith
    Howard Smith: Had either one of you been in psychoanalysis before?

    Lennon: . This [Primal Scream Therapy] seemed like something else.

    Yep.
    I've never had any time for psychiatrists and those people because I
    think they're cracked and crazy.
    Pot/kettle ?!!!

    geoff

    Well, as a true crime junkie, I know several cases of psychiatrists who were batsh*t crazy.

    At first, I thought Lennon's claim that he didn't need any sort of psychoanalysis (because he was always talking about himself with journalists) was plausible. The problem is that, by Lennon's own admissions to people like Glyn Johns and George Martin,
    he often BSed his way through those interviews.

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