Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed

by Will Storr

and far. Whilst it would be wrong to blame the Institute directly for what was happening, it was nonetheless troubling. In 1968, Marcia Price, who’d been a patient and a lover of Fritz, was found in a Volkswagen camper, which was parked on the grounds, having shot herself through the head with a rifle. After her death, footage was released of a Gestalt session in which Fritz had taunted her with her own suicide threats. Another vulnerable woman mocked by Fritz was a psychologist named Judith Gold. She’d confessed to having had suicidal thoughts and was ‘degraded aloud and mocked by Fritz’, according to witness Jacqueline Doyle. She left the group ‘distraught’. The next morning Judith Gold drowned herself in the baths. Back in the group, ‘everyone was totally frightened and spooked by this, and there was a lot of confusion of feelings toward Fritz,’ reported the witness. ‘Fritz was being very offhand and callous, no