Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Imperfect Nude. Like other publications of more pretension, Eye felt called upon to run at least one put-on, a bit of misogynic whimsy by Freelancer Pete Hamill urging the drafting of women. Hamill arrived at this conclusion after noting the behavior of a group of women who gathered in front of a police station after a rape suspect was brought in. They screamed: "Give him cancer." Writes Hamill: "It is at those moments that you understand that Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is, after all, a play about counter-insurgency...
...problem is complicated because some adolescent feeling and behavior are in fact ominous. Adolescence is the stage of life when a whole series of self-destructive and socially-destructive adaptations, from criminality to schizophrenia, first make their appearance. In adolescence, these adaptations are least rigidified, and are easiest to prevent or treat. Separating these ominous developments from the normal difficulties of adolescents is an important task. In the end, the skilled adult who attempts to differentiate the ominous from the normal must fall back on developmental criteria, attempting to judge whether the adolescent's behavior reflects the routine turbulence...
...even the most experienced clinician finds such differentiation difficult. And in our experience, the greater his experience, the more reluctant he is to label, characterize, and "diagnose" adolescent behavior. Untold harm is done by adults who attach to some transient aspect of the adolescent's behavior a self-confirming label like "delinquent," "schizophrenic," "homosexual," or "psychopathic." The vulnerable adolescent, already confused as to who he is, may seize upon even such negative labels in a despairing effort to be someone. Many of the disturbances of adolescence that endure into adulthood are the products of a similar interaction of the adolescent...
...While little can be said with confidence about "normal" aggressive behavior, it is fairly clear that there are persons who from time to time experience episodes of uncontrolled violence and that such persons are different from normal persons, much in the way that persons with alcoholism can be said to be different. Indeed there appears to be some overlap. The characteristics of persons who from time to time end up in situations where they "cannot control themselves" are only now beginning to be studied but there appears to be a repeated association between pathological intoxication, unrestrained physical attacks on other...
Distinguishing "the routine turbulence of adolescence" from "ominous, socially-disruptive behavior" should be the prime task of adults in dealing with adolescent problems, said Dr. Norman E. Zinberg, assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry yesterday...