Word: bolters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leading off for the opposition, Michi gan's Dr. Sidney Bolter tried to rip off "the mask of insanity" which, he said, has covered too many criminals. He scoffed at colleagues who "visualize a Utopian chain of hospitals and clinics devoted to the 'treatment' of every individual who breaks the law." Habitual offenders, Dr. Bolter argued, are psychopaths, and nothing can be done with them except keep them in penal institutions; in mental hospitals they are misfits and hamper the treatment of other patients. "Psychiatrists," said...
...Bolter, "are not looking at the problem realistically. It is about time we offered the courts some practical assistance, and not a lot of starry-eyed theories that allow too many clever patients escape hatches into a mental hospital." Flux & Finality. To many distinguished listeners, Dr. Bolter was simply an angry man. But all psychiatrists are in a dilemma over criminal law. Most of them cannot work well with the courts...