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...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...
...minimize the chance of falling into the hands of charlatans, Masters suggests, would-be patients should be sure that any therapist they plan to consult has some professional qualifications-for instance, that he is a reputable physician, psychologist or marriage counselor. The patient should also verify that the clinic has a good reputation, that treatment will be confidential, and that no unrealistic promises of cure are made. He also advises patients to shun clinics advertising in the yellow pages or in cheap magazines. But the only real solution, he points out, is to shut down the street-corner clinics. That...
Even these deaths can be prevented if doctors exercise more care in prescribing the Pill. Some women who ask their doctors for the Pill are now handed prescriptions after only cursory examination. Clinic patients may be asked few, if any, questions about their medical histories before they are given supplies of oral contraceptives...