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\"0715_Examined-Life2\"<\/a>

The other side of the red carpet.<\/p><\/div>\n

Over the past several years, a series of reports<\/a> have said that fewer medical students than ever are choosing to go into psychiatry. There are factors the authors generally cite: the wider availability of prescription drugs, the decline of analysis, the range of alternative therapies. There are fewer stigmas about seeing a psychotherapist nowadays\u2014and people who might once have visited a psychiatrist can now avail themselves of yoga, meditation, and other means of self-help.<\/p>\n

Having watched the Oscars red-carpet coverage last night, I have yet another theory: E! From what I could gather, every member of the network\u2019s team\u2014Ross Mathews, Kelly Osbourne, special correspondent\u00a0Khlo\u00e9 Kardashian, the inevitable Giuliana Rancic\u2014is well versed in the jargon of the\u00a0Diagnostic and Statistical Manual<\/em>\u00a0of Mental Disorders. <\/em>(Doubly impressive as they are also all trained in fashion law enforcement.)\u00a0They threw out self-diagnoses with the confidence of a 1960s Jungian analyst: Osbourne was \u201cobsessed\u201d with Marion Cotillard\u2019s dotted Dior; Zoe Saldana\u2019s post-baby body was \u201cliterally insane.\u201d Countless things were, of course, crazy. I started to keep a tally on a paper napkin, but I couldn\u2019t bear to watch the whole thing, so my results were compromised. (I already had a little hieroglyphic army, though.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, people have been co-opting the language of mental illness for as long as there\u2019s been language and jerks. \u00a0Think about the many pejorative terms for insanity that fill any edition of the American Dictionary of Slang<\/em>. Language inflation is always declawing scary terms; maybe it\u2019s a human impulse. What\u2019s different about the tone of the current usage is that it\u2019s so earnest, so reverent. There\u2019s no sense of reclaiming or owning something; like the previously neurotic Bette Davis in Now, Voyager<\/em>, the new version has emerged glamorous and confident, with no hint of her past life to mar the impression.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019m imagining a sketch in which Freud and Jung act as E! correspondents, or maybe in which they put Rancic on the couch and seriously discuss her manifold obsessive tendencies. It wouldn\u2019t be funny at all.<\/p>\n

Sadie Stein is contributing editor of <\/em>The Paris Review and the <\/em>Daily\u2019s correspondent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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