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Article: Shrink control: The limits of a psychiatrist's skepticism. (Cultures & Reviews).
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- May 1, 2001
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Just when you thought that Bill Maher's insipid talk show had given political incorrectness a bad name, along comes Sally Satel to redeem the concept. She is only partly successful.
It doesn't help that Satel's publisher treats political correctness as if it were a new concept. The cover of her book refers to it twice, and even though the subtitle tells you what PC stands for, olitically and orrect have been inserted in small type next to the P and C in the title. Someone at Basic Books clearly was worried that browsers would mistake PC, M.D. for a science fiction novel about a computer that prescribes antibiotics.
The cover, of course, is not Satel's ...