 Suspense and the producer of radios outstanding theater of thrills a master of mystery and adventure William M. Robson let the AMA and the APA note we do not wish to imply that all psychiatrists are heavies or that psychoanalysis is nonsense without psychotherapy a lot of us would be dead or worse so sick the death itself would be a welcome surcease so listen then listen to head shrieker starring Ms. Nina Fosh and Mr. Helmut Dantin which begins in just a moment 15 minutes behind the wheel that's all it takes to convince you that the 59 Plymouths really got it got the newest of new design new sport car handling ease new fury performance new get up and go just tell your Plymouth dealer you want to sample the goal then you turn the key and Plymouths new Golden Commander V8 leaps into life now you just push a button and go on your way to the most fun-filled 15 minutes of your driving life see your Plymouth dealer take your fun drive in the 59 Plymouth real soon and now head shrinkers starring Ms. Nina Fosh and Mr. Helmut Dantin a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense the doctor will see you now Mrs. Elendor thank you I'm his last appointment as usual Mrs. Elendor I'll be leaving shortly myself as usual thank you as usual well how are you this afternoon we're out I guess the couch or may I sit down the couch I think your association seemed to flow more freely on the couch all right you're the doctor I said you're the doctor I heard you well that's supposed to be funny is it well you laughed the first time I said it the first day I came here I laughed to put it your ease I had heard it before you've heard everything before haven't you doctor does it seem that way to you everything but this what I'm gonna kill you when before this hour is over why well look at your notes doctor you've taken any notes while you've been scratching away behind me all these months I don't know maybe you just been doodling maybe you're drawing pictures yeah that's probably it dirty pictures that must be quite a file you have on me Ruth Elendor manic depressive compulsive obsessoid check and double-check neurotic how long have I been turning myself inside out for you how long have I been doing my psychic striptease for you how many hours have I spent on this couch how many you know as well as I know I don't once I knew the time of day once I knew how many days it wasn't till Christmas I could tell when the rent was due give or take a day or two like I could place myself in time fairly well no longer now there is no time now there's nothing but five o'clock to 545 every afternoon Monday through Friday the other 23 hours and 15 minutes of the day I don't know where they go Saturday and Sunday what do you suppose happens to me on Saturday and Sunday dear dear doctor this is a phase of the treatment oh yes I know I know transference it's called to be followed by counter transference and when that's completed I'll be a whole person but hasn't that transference gone a little bit too far I don't know any place where Freud suggests the weekend is a particularly effective time for transference nor quiet out of the way resources a substitute for the doctor's office you shouldn't be reading Freud I know I should just take your word for it if I went to the great man himself I might find out what a swindler you are what happened to those weekends where now what happened to the Saturdays and Sundays of my transference am I now to expiate your sins in the agony of solitary counter transference each patient's requires his own kind of treatment and some other patient needs the weekends is she as pretty as I am as intelligent a sick if you are dissatisfied with the progress of your therapy you're free to quit at any time quit oh no Werner I can't quit you know I can't quit heaven help me I love you in a moment we continue with the second act of suspense what bothers you most about a cold for me it's the choked up congested feeling in fact science now says to clear away most cold miseries clear away congestion sinus congestion that causes headaches nasal congestion that 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that once socrates that's right you're a lot like him doctor and you know what happened to him and why aren't you projecting projecting I gave up little boys would I stop being a little girl you were speaking of love I was a little girl I'm strange but I was I was daddy's little girl I'd run down the walk to meet him in the late afternoon screaming daddy's home daddy daddy's home he'd sleep me up in his arms kiss me cheeky bill scratchy against mine must actually tick off and he smelled funny but nice sweaty and sweet bitter graph of a pipe smoker the smell of a man we had so much fun together in evenings I would kill myself up in his lap while he was reading the paper in a little bit on Saturdays it was raining I'd hang around his workbench in the garage while he was building something sawdust wood shavings well their man smells to you know daddy daddy daddy do daddy daddy you know what I'd like to do next Saturday I'd like to go to the beach with you will you take me daddy please take me will you go down early in the morning will stay all day and we'll have lots and lots of hot dogs and no daddy just you and me we don't want mother-in-law I didn't have to stop why can't I sit in your lap anymore daddy why I don't want any of your shots I don't need your fancy magic medicine with the unpronounceable name I want my daddy I wanted to be like it was before before I wanted to be like before I was 11 or 12 before he changed he changed suddenly you know all at once he wouldn't let me curl up on his lap anymore he'd push me and tell me I was a big girl now he'd act embarrassed as if he were almost ashamed of me probably not ashamed but certainly embarrassed you were growing up I didn't want to grow up I didn't ask to grow up I wanted to be daddy's little girl that's all I ever wanted one of all those boys in school later smell of like milk milk to this turning sour not pipes and saw dust and sweat cheeks and scratchy they were just boys yet you married one of them well yes I knew I'd marry him from the moment I met him at that party during the Christmas holidays we started going around together once a week then twice a week so we were seeing each other every night then he would call me his princess and he was my night on a white horse and we're married in church I was a June bride and daddy gave me away and then I was Mrs. George Ellender I wasn't a princess anymore and George wasn't a knight on a white horse it wasn't like the fairy story so they lived happily ever after those stories don't tell about the sinks full of dirty dishes they make no mention of the sleep smell of the dawn embrace or the painful teetium of getting to know someone after you're married to him but we made it all right we got through that first year we played house I called him daddy he called me my he thought it was fun well it was fun but you changed all that you awakened me you taught me reality you opened my eyes you and your psychoanalysis why couldn't you've left me alone why didn't you let this sleeping bitch lie who do you think you are God no perhaps you think I am oh no no no not God the devil may be but not God anthropomorphism the last refuge of the ignorant and the immature come off those big words they don't impress me anymore save them for your next victim victim yes victim lawyers have clients storekeepers have customers doctors have patients but you have victims why me though I should pick on me or other women at that party where we met lots of them nice juicy neurotic ones why me you sought me out oh come now who lit the cigarettes who brought the drinks who danced attendance and who told me I was more disturbed than I realized the fantasies of rationalization the distinguished psychiatrist the great healer concerned with poor little me the beard like a messiah the gentle voice with just enough of Vienna in it the compassionate eyes I arrived at that party in the best of health I left it a very sick woman who could be made well only by you you convinced me that I was leading a meaningless life that I was unhappy and maladjusted and immature you assured me that I would only realize my fullest potential through psychoanalysis you practically begged me now you seduced me into becoming your patient you came here of your own free will oh no I came here of your will and against my husband's it's only natural for a husband at first at first George didn't have a chance you saw to that you tore him down piece by piece until there was nothing left of him or our marriage your decision to divorce your husband was arrived at by you after you realized the real reasons why you married oh nuts I've been on this couch too long for that kind of double talk Werner you guided my free association every inch of the way you led me oh so deftly to the water and then you let me think it was my idea to drink that first night when you took me to dinner I didn't know then how could I that no ethical analysts would have suggested such a thing I thought it was part of the therapy oh I was so easy for you wasn't I Werner it must have been very little fun for you really no struggle poor Werner I took away your sense of conquest didn't I but I gave you everything else everything willingly I loved you Werner you were a God my God for pipe your your beard you were daddy but a contemptible thing to say what an evil dirty man you are you see why it has become impossible for you to continue as my patient yes I told you when I became your lover that I could no longer be your doctor and you were right and so that's the last time I will ever lie on that couch from this moment on I shall no longer be your patient and you will no longer be my doctor a very mature decision yes because now I'm gonna kill you in a moment we continue with the third act of once upon a time the man with the fastest horse was the best newsman those were the days when everything traveled slowly and just getting the news through it all was an accomplishment the fabulous progress and radio communications has changed all that today we can hear what's happening anywhere within moments of the event itself and with this change has become a new criterion for good news reporting swift communications aren't enough how good is the man at the mic what can he tell us of why the event took place the meaning of the event in our own lives it's meaning elsewhere in the world those are the questions we want answered now and those are the questions distinguished CBS newsmen are eminently qualified to answer CBS newsmen are more than widely traveled news reporters they are men with thoughtful probing minds that are put at your service every new service has fast horses these days but only CBS news has men like these reporting to you regularly bringing you more than the facts helping you to understanding and now starring Miss Nina Fosh and Mr. Helmut Dantine act three of head shrinker that gun is loaded you think I'm just acting out by aggressions I'm not that sick dear doctor the gun is loaded you have considered the consequences all of them if you take my life society will take yours they won't get the chance there's another bullet in this gun there are several I could ring for help go ahead you'll be dead when it gets here you are quite determined to kill me quite do you feel qualified to judge condemn and execute another human being as qualified as any other woman who's been rejected by the man she loved and found him not worth her loving but I don't hate you as much as I love myself for having loved you I see you now for what you are a ridiculous little man I wonder how you look without that beard I wonder if you have any chin under it don't you think this comedy has gone far enough it is a comedy isn't it and you're the comedian the apostolic descendant of Sigmund Freud from all our sins dear Freud deliver us I will be done deliver us not into our it and forgive our ego for thine is the power and the super ego forever and ever and little bearded Werner is by vicar on earth you are becoming hysterical now put that gun away and to get a hold of yourself I'm enjoying a little comedy and my hour isn't over for 12 more minutes it is my hour I'm paying for it you're insane ah insane is a legal term not a psychiatric term remember we learned that early on the couch there is no such thing as insanity only varying degrees of adjustment to reality there see how well I learned my lesson but there's so much more I don't know for instance doctor I've often wondered why you chose psychiatry as your specialty I've always been interested in the human mind honestly yes how it works why people do the things they do our number one problem in this country is mental health yes I know and you're dedicated to combat discourage at $20 an hour that is not an exact it's quite a racket all that money plus the innermost secrets of some of the town's most prominent men and women the ethics of my profession are you sickle with me please try to understand me you were not just a patient you were so much more to me you made me a man I know so you told me but you didn't tell me about the one before me the one who tried to commit suicide after you refused to continue therapy I've been doing a little checking it's very interesting the things you hear around town when your name is mentioned you know when you are very highly thought of in this community what I'm surprised no one has named you as co-respondent in a divorce case yet how many of your patients stay married after you're through with them what is it you have against marriage weren't I can't be responsible for what the person does once he learns the truth about himself of course you can't a surgeon can be held responsible if he leaves a pair of pliers inside a patient after an operation an obstetrician could be held responsible for a bungled delivery but you can't be sued for a ruined life it's a great out you have the patient did it himself name me one patient you've made happy psychoanalysis does not guarantee happiness now you tell me it seeks to help the individual to adjust to reality there is no such thing as happiness that's not what you said once there is only the absence of angst translation please angst anxiety fear a person can function normally only when he is rid himself of fear what are you afraid of Werner me why nothing and why do you hide behind that beard why aren't you afraid to look like other men less people realize that's all you are just another man no of course why do you use your analyst couches of lonely hearts club can't you meet women any other way are you afraid to compete with other men in the world of women Ruth Ruth don't say things like that why because they're true are you afraid of the truth Werner of reality Ruth you said you loved me once so I did and you said you love me and I believed you but now I know you didn't love me you hated me you hate all women and you hate the happiness they can bring to a man so you try to destroy love wherever you find it you aren't an evil man Werner you're a sick man I know I am but what can I do I sit here all day long listening to the deepest problems of others but who can I turn to with my problems forgive the bad joke Werner but what you need is to be psychoanalyzed I was you know that then you need a refresher course no I need you me yes you you know all about me you understand I need you Bruce no no no no no no you seem to forget that I came here to kill you but you didn't really mean it you were acting out your regression is true but you wouldn't go that far oh yes I would not when I need you so desperately you're really afraid aren't you yes yes terrified but not of dying of living yes without you I know now I can't go on living without you and the biggest help I could be to you would be to kill you I couldn't do that now it would be ungrateful of me ungrateful yes you see doctor you you've cured me of what of you but I need you that my dear Werner is your problem well I see my hour is nearly up you're not leaving me yes but you can't know you can't oh yes I can you are no longer my doctor my father my lover oh my god you're just a frightened little man Ruth please Ruth Ruth oh I might as well leave this gun with you I have no further use for it good luck Werner suspense in which Miss Nina Fosh and Mr. Helmut Dantin starred in head shrinker written produced and directed by William M. Robeson the nurse was played by Florence Hawksworth in just a moment a word about next week's story of suspense can't taste the best can't taste the best listen listen again next week when we return with James and Pamela Mason in the dealings of Mr. Markham another tale well calculated to keep you in suspense the CBS radio network