Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This imaginative operation was not widely noted. But meanwhile, at the Cleveland Clinic in 1967, Argentine-born Dr. Rene G. Favaloro hit upon the same idea. His chief, Dr. Donald...
...attacked a girl with a croquet post and later murdered and raped a student nurse. For the past 18 years he has been confined in Michigan's Ionia State Hospital as a "criminal sexual psychopath." Last year he was told that brain surgeons at the highly respected Lafayette Clinic in Detroit might be able to heal his apparently incurable condition by psychosurgery, a controversial technique in which portions of the brain are destroyed (TIME, April 3, 1972). Smith agreed, but just before the planned operation, an activist attorney heard about it and filed a class action to stop such...
...Although your article on our dwarfism clinic [May 7] brought the problems of little people to the attention of the public, it was misleading to indicate that our clinic was "the only facility in the world devoted exclusively to the treatment and study of dwarfism." Indeed, there are a number of excellent endocrinology and genetics clinics throughout the world concerned with various forms of short stature...
Research and teaching in abnormal personality began at Harvard in 1927 when the late Morton Prince, professor of Social Ethics, and Henry Murray '15, professor emeritus of Psychology, then a young physician, set up the Harvard Student Clinic on Plympton Street. The Plympton Clinic was at first primarily a center for personality research. However, in 1946 the Veterans' Administration, faced with thousands of returning shell-shocked G.I.s began to fund graduate programs in university psychology departments to train non-medical psychotherapists to cope with the needs of these veterans. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) added more money...
According to Norman Watt, professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a former lecturer in the clinical psychology program at Harvard, the Social Relations Department with its strong research emphasis opposed the Boulder ideal. Despite the addition of practical training, Harvard's graduate program continued the Plympton Street Clinic's stress on research. Students did supervised fieldwork in therapy centers such as the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and the Fernald State School, but they were trained mainly as scientists...