Word: blacks
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Robert H. Ebert, M.D., Dean of the Medical School, yesterday explained the reasons for Dr. Poussaint's appointment: "Of course we hired him because he's a first rate psychiatrist, but we also felt he could be helpful in the dean's office, especially with the black students...
Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., noted black psychiatrist from Tufts University, has been appointed to the Harvard Medical School Faculty...
...Poussaint specializes in the study of the black power movement and white workers in the civil rights movement. Last April, Dr. Poussaint spoke out against psychiatry's failure in the black community...
Commenting on Dr. Poussaint's plans for research, Dr. Ebert explained, "We hope he'll continue to explore the relations of psychiatry and the black in the ghetto, but I have no idea of his definite plans as Harvard doesn't guide research...
...concern is partially based on his experiences while living in East Harlem, New York City and in Jackson, Mississippi in 1965-66 when he served as Southern Field Director of the Medical Committee for Human Rights. Eighteen of his major publications have dealt with the dilemma of the American black...