In Defense of Hoarders

Pawing through a random pile of papers on a neglected shelf recently, I came across a 1955 article by William F. Buckley’s friend Morrie Ryskind. Ryskind’s topic was the craze of his era, psychoanalysis. In the Hollywood circles Ryskind frequented, psychoanalysis was so much the rage that the only question people asked was whether your analyst was Jungian or Adlerian.

Ryskind, however, issued a declaration: “You’ll never get me on that couch.”