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...crowding of the psychiatric facilities places a sharp limit on the intensity of therapy which University psychiatrists undertake. Coon's report said, "Students with deep-seated, persistent neuroses can expect to receive from us with our present facilities little more than a holding action, or, at best, to be tided over crises." He hastened to add, however, "Such chronically disabled students are encouraged to obtain treatment from private psychiatrists or other outside sources such as out-patient psychiatric clinics attached to certain hospitals in the Metropolitan area." Some of these clinics offer care for low fees or, in some cases...
...Both Coon and Farnsworth have written about the kinds of student problems they have encountered in their psychiatric work. Coon has noted that Freud felt the neuroses to be "serious, constitutionally determined affections, which are seldom restricted to a few out-bursts, but make themselves felt as a rule over long periods of life, or even throughout its entire extent...
...emotional disturbances," Coon continues, "which we meet so frequently in college students appear 'prima facie' to have the same more or less serious, intractable character commonly ascribed to the classical neuroses, but I think there is evidence to indicate that they are in many instances really troubles of a less stubborn and persistent nature...
...Coon feels this explains why disorders which, if found in an older person might lead to ominous predictions, but among students yield rapidly to treatment. An American-Psychological Association pamphlet put it another way: the college psychiatrist "sees people who are of superior intelligence, who are 'fresh from their symptoms,' and who are for the most part eager to get on with their work as soon as possible...
...distinction about the college student, Coon feels, is in the different types of responsibility a young man who goes to college, and one who does not, must take...