Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this sensitive, seemingly humane outlook be reconciled with the reality of the right to life movement and its social implications? Certainly it stands in painful contradiction to the violence peretrated by vehement anti-abortionists; brandishing bloody fetuses at Congressional hearings, invading or even firebombing abortion clinics, and the kidnapping of a couple who ran a clinic...
...statistics are too sketchy to categorize rapists; the exceptions spill across all social classes. Says Judy Ravitz, executive director of the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women: "They're your employer, the people who go to school with you, anybody." Fred Berlin, a psychiatrist who runs a clinic for sexual offenders at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, says his patients include a priest, doctor, lawyer, teacher and television administrator...
...seen as something else, a kind of wordless dialogue. The baby not only understands what the mother is communicating, or not communicating, but it is trying to tell her things, if she will only listen. Says Dr. Bennett Leventhal of the University of Chicago's Child Psychiatry Clinic: "We now know that babies send messages very early. In their first year of life, they are good students. They are also very good teachers, but they have to have someone to interact with them. There are sometimes very competent babies with very incompetent parents...
...world with a lot more sophisticated skills than we had previously thought, but I do not think reading, writing and arithmetic should be in their curriculum," says Psychologist Tiffany Field of the University of Miami School of Medicine. Warns Child Psychiatrist Robert Harmon, director of the Infant Psychiatry Clinic at the University of Colorado School of Medicine: "I think you're going to get children burned out on learning." And University of Denver Psychologist Kurt Fischer says of the baby's first year: "Don't worry about teaching as much as providing a rich and emotionally supportive...
Among adults, stress seems to be rising to Western levels. According to the government, one of every 25 wage earners is treated annually at a mental hospital or clinic for a tension-related malady, a rise of 70% in 25 years. The feeling among some Japanese health professionals is that the system does not allow people many ways to release their anger. Men are allowed a few surly comments under the cover of drunkenness, and women sometimes take to their beds to show displeasure, but most of the time people just swallow their rage...