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...called Hiatt "a proven administrator and a distinguished clinician and research scholar...
Adelson also takes issue with the wing of the movement that often equates male sexuality with rape -sometimes seeing rape symbolically as the distillation of the normal male sexual attitude. Says Adelson: "As any clinician knows, these days the problem in male sexuality lies in the opposite direction, not in phallic megalomania but rather in sexual diffidence and self-doubt...
...recent issue of the Journal of Psychology. Clinician Fred Brown of New York's Mount Sinai Hospital reports that people no longer respond to the well-known Rorschach inkblot test the way they once did. In the Rorschach, patients disclose their emotional conflicts by describing the people, animals and objects they visualize in abstract shapes. One of the ten standard blots has long been helpful in spotting sexual difficulties. In the 1950s, 51% of patients who were shown the blot said that it looked like a male figure. That response was considered normal. As for the 39% who thought...
...policy committee hopes the reorganization into fewer shops will reassert the School's aim of producing "educational clinicians" skilled in both theoretical and practical approaches to education. "A clinician," Sizer said, "is a master craftsman, but in a setting which is itself in a state of change...
...even the most experienced clinician finds such differentiation difficult. And in our experience, the greater his experience, the more reluctant he is to label, characterize, and "diagnose" adolescent behavior. Untold harm is done by adults who attach to some transient aspect of the adolescent's behavior a self-confirming label like "delinquent," "schizophrenic," "homosexual," or "psychopathic." The vulnerable adolescent, already confused as to who he is, may seize upon even such negative labels in a despairing effort to be someone. Many of the disturbances of adolescence that endure into adulthood are the products of a similar interaction of the adolescent...