Breaking Point (TV Series)
There Are the Hip, and There Are the Square (1963)
Paul Richards: Dr. McKinley Thompson
Quotes
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Dr. William Raymer : You're too involved.
Dr. McKinley Thompson : What does that mean, Doctor, "too involved"? Should I put a sticker on my brain that says, "patient is dead, case closed, finished..."?
Dr. William Raymer : Take it easy! We all have to lose once in awhile.
Dr. McKinley Thompson : We don't have to like it.
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Dr. McKinley Thompson : I'm sure they felt they had an impossible son they'd done everything for.
Dr. William Raymer : And that's the tragedy. They deserted him emotionally in childhood and there's no return.
Dr. McKinley Thompson : No. Not anymore.
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Dr. McKinley Thompson : I want to help you.
Evelyn Denner : Help me? You couldn't help Evan, and he wanted your help.
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Dr. McKinley Thompson : She's got to accept the fact that she loved Evan, and that she's capable of feeling.
Dr. William Raymer : And you think you can make her see that by going to her?
Dr. McKinley Thompson : I hope so.
Dr. William Raymer : We have a nasty phrase for what you're suggesting: therapeutic enticement.
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Dr. McKinley Thompson : Now, let's go back to this interest you had in dancing.
Evelyn Denner : You think maybe I ought to try and revive it?
Dr. McKinley Thompson : You want to?
Evelyn Denner : It would be a good therapy, wouldn't it?
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Evelyn Denner : I'm a coward, Doctor. If I could kill myself I would have done it long ago.
Dr. McKinley Thompson : You're not a coward. Suicide is neither cowardice nor courage. It's just a break with reality.
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Evelyn Denner : Well, once when I was nine I was farmed out to a family that was different.
Dr. McKinley Thompson : In what way?
Evelyn Denner : The wife came home one day with some old tights and leotards. Oh, just cheap ones, probably used, I guess. And she put 'em on me, and I started dancing around like some nut. Anyway, she enrolled me in a class the next week. A regular class, with a bar and all that other jazz. And I guess I was pretty good. All week long I'd look forward to the next lesson
[trails off and retreats into her own thoughts]
Evelyn Denner : .
Dr. McKinley Thompson : Evelyn, you were saying that all week long you looked forward to the next lesson?
Evelyn Denner : Yeah, uh, well, her husband got a better job in another state and I was sent someplace else.