Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slept poorly and lost weight. He gave up hope. Late one night the tension in his mind became so great that John X threatened to end his life, but his wife talked him out of it. A doctor persuaded him that he must go voluntarily into the Payne Whitney Clinic or face commitment elsewhere because of his suicidal tendencies...
...these meetings, Psychiatrist in Chief Oskar Diethelm is joined by two other senior psychiatrists, Drs. Thomas A. C.J Rennie and Richard N. Kohl, who are at the clinic full time and share the supervision of all patients. Also present are the resident psychiatrist, with more than three years' experience and training at the clinic; 13 assistant psychiatrists at various stages of three-to five-year courses as residents. Here an assistant psychiatrist is assigned to be the patient's personal physician during his stay, and the patient's daily routine is prescribed. He can be certain...
...three weeks at a city hospital, Bill Z received five electroconvulsive treatments. These subdued his more extreme symptoms. Psychiatrists agreed that he might respond to intensive psychotherapy, and his parents arranged his transfer to the Payne Whitney Clinic...
...Hopeful Art. For patients who are not ill enough to be admitted to the hospital, and for some who should be admitted but feel they cannot be spared from home, the clinic has an outpatient department headed by a full-time senior psychiatrist and staffed by 55 experienced psychiatrists who give two half days a week from their private practices. Fees range from nothing, for the penniless, to $2.50 a visit...
...Payne Whitney Clinic (and others like it) can hardly make a dent in the ranks of the 350,000 U.S. citizens who are admitted each year to psychiatric hospitals. Yet the psychiatrists who staff such institutions are confident that in their progressive, imaginative approach to the treatment of patients they have part of the answer...