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...awarded a faculty position at Temple University Medical School and the Man of the Year award from the American Academy of Psychotherapy. From the 1950s to the late 1970s, Rosen was psychiatry's Superman; he soared to the peak of his profession with the claim that he could cure any psychosis...
...saturated the psychoanalytic profession with bad science, unearned hubris and treatment that was patently dangerous to patients and families. Dolnick does not launch into a diatribe against all forms of psychotherapy. Although psychotherapy can be effective for treating neuroses (relatively benign emotional disorders), Dolnick targets psychoanalysts who tried to cure psychoses (marked disorders of perception or reality) with talk therapy alone. From the 1940s to the 1970s an aggressive cabal of psychoanalysts fit such a bill; they scoffed at the biological origins of mental illness, eschewed treating schizophrenia with drugs and thought that their "talking" forms of therapy could single...
...better than them." Another would bring autistic children to his home, convinced that their real parents were "killing them." Even John Rosen believed that his belligerent methods of "shock therapy" could jolt his patients into reality. But the progeny of these psychotherapists' "good intentions" was not a new cure--only a new method for assigning blame...
...while acknowledging the benefits that alternative forms of medicine offer, students should be wary of confusing prevetative medicine with general cure. Director of the Bureau of Study Council, Charles P. Ducey says therapies like massage may not get at the underlying issue that causes student malaise: namely stress...
However, some sick students say they decided to cure themselves rather than turn to UHS for help...