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Psychiatry is not yet 60 years old; it is the youngest and most controversial branch of medicine. But psychiatry's solemn clinical lingo (see box) has been snatched up, misused and overused by the man in the street. Parents and teachers speak knowingly of "inferiority complexes." The comic strips and the movies refer familiarly to "frustrations" and "repressions." Psychiatry has been hotly debated and bitterly denounced by clerics (it seems to poach on their preserves), by Communists (it puts too much emphasis on the individual), by materialists (it claims that illness need not have a physical basis)-and even...
What Is Psychiatry? What exactly, is this science that all the fuss is about? In one of his three books* published this year (You and Psychiatry, Scribner, $2.50, written in collaboration with Munro Leaf, author of Ferdinand the Bull), Dr. Will has given a textbook definition: "Psychiatry is that branch of clinical medicine that concerns itself with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of personality disorders." Instead of "personality dis orders," some authorities chop off four syllables and call it "mental illness." Despite the claims of some of its enthusiasts, psychiatry does not pretend to be a philosophy, nor take...
Serious Job. As psychiatry's U.S. sales manager, Dr. Will is well aware that any new branch of science gets a rough kicking around by the public until the idea has been well tested. Psychiatrists take some comfort in the thought that Galileo was jailed, that Lister was hooted at by his medical colleagues, and that Darwin, who changed the whole course of Western scientific thinking, was attacked viciously in his lifetime...
psychiatry. The science of healing diseases of the mind, a branch of medicine. (Psychiatrists must be M.D.s...
...prevent a third world war," Thomas H. Mahoney, co-chairman of the Massachusetts branch of the United World Federalists, said last night at the year's first meeting of the Harvard World Federalists...