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...harbor seals that breed on the island's sandy beaches. This year, however, they have been witnesses to a mysterious season of death. So far, more than 150 dead and dying seals and their prematurely born pups have washed ashore; in the past few weeks, Lighthouse Keeper Einar Boisen and others have been picking up as many as 17 dead seals a day. Says Boisen: "We've started calling ourselves the death patrol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Season Of Death | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...Jack W. Boisen, a spokesman for Trans World Airlines, said Friday that recent strikes against National and United Airlines may slightly disrupt some students' travel plans. Travelers will have difficulty getting reservations on domestic flights because of the strike, he said, but they should still have no trouble finding space on international flights...

Author: By Jay Yeager, | Title: Many Undergraduates Planning Vacations in Warmer Climates | 12/18/1975 | See Source »

Died. Anton T. Boisen, 88, U.S. theologian renowned for his pioneering work in religious psychology (The Exploration of the Inner World), a Congregationalist minister whose own mental difficulties (he suffered from schizophrenia) led him in 1936 to advance the theory that "certain forms of mental disorder and religious revelation are closely interrelated"; of arteriosclerosis; in Elgin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 15, 1965 | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...During 3½ years as an Anglican parish minister in Canada. Pastor Bruder felt that he was failing some members of his flock through lack of understanding. Then he heard of the Council for Clinical Training, founded in 1925 by a Congregationalist minister named Anton T. Boisen, who had once been a mental patient himself. Anglican Bruder took one of the council's twelve-week courses, found the work with patients so absorbing that he went on to further study in hospitals and prisons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Mental Ministry | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

Like ex-patient Boisen, he was shocked at the casual insensitivity of the clergy who bothered to visit mental patients at all; they would preach on such irrelevant subjects as foreign missions or potentially explosive texts, e.g., "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out." But there was more to it than simply giving the patients understanding, says Bruder. "I found in what Boisen called 'the wilderness of the lost' you discovered the needs of people at the ground level, naked both emotionally and physically. It was a whole new field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Mental Ministry | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

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