Mr. Magoo Is My Role Model

About the Book

Mister Magoo has always appealed to me. His blindness showing his naivete, and inability to become oriented in a sometimes bizarre world, at the same time exposes the insanities surrounding all of us. It does so in a kind, gentle manner, clearly showing an absence of judgemental or hostile attitudes. He is simply lost and confused. My desire to achieve this capacity of calling attention to the injustices and unfairness all people face at one time or another, with humor and equanimity, is captured by this cartoon figure. It is in this sense that he has become my role model.

About the Author

Roy M. Mendelsohn, M.D. is the author of The synthesis of self, The Manifest Dream, Leaps, How can talking help, and Pearls. Dr. Mendelsohn is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Orthopsychiatric Association, and a board certified adult and child psychoanalyst. He is a former director of the Child Guidance Clinic and director of child psychiatric training at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. Dr. Mendelsohn studied at the Menninger School Of Psychiatry, the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and the University of Illinois. He maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis in Saint Louis.