Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue is the money likely to flow from any national health insurance program. Psychiatrists, who are M.D.s, are not eager to share federal dollars with nonmedical psychologists. Psychologists, in turn, are usually Ph.D.s and generally unenthusiastic about the flow of Government funds to other workers lower on the mental health totem pole: group therapy leaders, marriage counselors and psychiatric social workers...
Much of the energy in the mental health field is now going into jockeying for Government and private reimbursement. In April the American Psychiatric Association hailed as "a terrific triumph" a federal court decision involving clinical psychologists in Virginia. It upheld the Blue Shield's policy that benefits cannot be paid to psychologists directly but only through medical doctors...
...Florida, the issue was psychologists vs. other mental health workers. The house passed a bill that covered the licensing of psychologists and included the certifying of other professionals. But the senate refused to be rushed into passing it. Said State Representative George Sheldon: "The bottom line was not protection of the public but a closed shop." Congress will have the same headache in framing a health insurance program...
...saddened, remarking that Young was "the only American I ever met who listened well. And there's a lot you don't even have to tell him." In Beirut a P.L.O. statement declared that Young was coerced into resigning, a tactic that "represents the ugliest form of mental terrorism and racist persecution." Israeli officials studiously avoided comment. But in Bonn, a high-ranking official said that Young "typified the Carter Administration's amateurism...
Less instructive but more inspirational is Jim Lilliefor's Total Running (Morrow; $7.95), an examination of the "mental and spiritual side of running" that contains such lines as "running as spiritualism is the lifting from your shoulders of an insoluble puzzle." On the Run, by Marty Liquori and Skip Myslenski (Morrow; $9.95), shows the great miler and distance runner to be as dedicated and self-critical as every top athlete must be. But Liquori is more instructive on television. Running Back, by Steve Heidenreich and Dave Dorr (Hawthorn; $11.95), is nondramatic; it describes how Heidenreich slogged his way back...