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Nonetheless, says Dr. Klaus Thomas, head of a West Berlin psychiatric clinic that has treated more than 12,000 would-be suicides, Berliners, and other Germans for that matter, have no particular "German suicide personality." In a computer-aided study of 10,000 patients who have passed through his Berlin Suicide Prevention Center, Thomas found few unusual characteristics. Most (53%) of the patients were troubled by problems of sex and marriage. One in twelve patients were men of the cloth, but that was no great surprise to Thomas, an ex-Lutheran pastor. "Everyone else turns to the clergy," he says...
...they prefer to sneak away "for the carnival," returning miraculously refurbished to the astonished delight of their husbands and friends. The undisputed king of Rio's colony of cutaneous cutters is Ivo Pitanguy (pronounced pee-tahn-ghee), a theatrically handsome 44-year-old doctor who jets from his clinic in Rio to ski slopes in Europe, hotly pursued by glamorous, albeit sagging socialites. Admitting to "the largest experience in breasts in the world," Pitanguy has a small clientele on the Continent but does his major overhauls...
...professional cane-cutters. They come from all kinds of work: near our camp a brigade of cigar and cigarette workers and one made up of people from the Health Ministry were cutting. In all cane-cutting camps, all material necessities-food, lodging, clothing, recreational facilities, and a small medical clinic with both a doctor and a dentist in each camp-are provided completely free. This is true at all agricultural work places and in many factories also...
...heroin epidemic has hit us. We must face that fact," says Dr. Donald Louria, president of the New York State Council on Drug Addiction and author of Drug Scene. Dr. Elliot Luby, associate director of Detroit's addict-treating Lafayette Clinic, concurs: "Addiction is really reaching epidemic proportions. You have to look at it as an infectious disease." Epidemic, of course, is a relative term, but as a Chicago psychiatrist, Dr. Marvin Schwarz, says: "Now we're seeing it clinically, whereas before we weren't. The kids on heroin all have long histories of drug use." At the California-based...
...parent should calmly confront a younger child with his suspicions without accusing or condemning him. He should take the child to a clinic, doctor or psychiatrist for an examination. If an older child flatly refuses examination, the parent should turn to juvenile court or social agencies for help. Some states have forced commitment to narcotics treatment centers, others permit voluntary rehabilitation...