{"id":79,"date":"2003-07-28T08:14:25","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T12:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2003\/07\/28\/twisting-by-the-pool\/"},"modified":"2003-07-28T08:14:25","modified_gmt":"2003-07-28T12:14:25","slug":"twisting-by-the-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2003\/07\/28\/twisting-by-the-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Twisting by the Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a26'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The directors of all these films tapped into what some psychologists believe about water &#x2014; that is has unsettling connotations for the human mind.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;There is something about water that suggests a loss of control, not being able to stand in it, with your head vulnerably sticking out,&#8221; said Dr. Judith Beck, director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research in Bala Cynwyd, Pa.<\/p>\n<p>\n[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;A swimming pool is a place where people expose their bodies,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;There is a kind of sexual competitiveness associated with who looks better in pools, who is sexier. And everyone thinks they will lose out on the competition.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The convergence of the Faustian bargain, the envy of others, the symbol of failing in a sexual competition, and of course, death by drowning all converge around the swimming pool,&#8221; Dr. Gabbard said.<br \/>\n<P><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/07\/27\/fashion\/27POOL.html\" target=\"_blank\">Art<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The directors of all these films tapped into what some psychologists believe about water &#x2014; that is has unsettling connotations for the human mind. &#8220;There is something about water that suggests a loss of control, not being able to stand in it, with your head vulnerably sticking out,&#8221; said Dr. Judith Beck, director of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ionstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}