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...observed later: "If ever an identity crisis was central and long-drawn-out in somebody's life, it was so in mine." His Danish parents were separated when he was born in 1902, and he grew up in Karlsruhe, Germany, with his mother and stepfather, a Jewish pediatrician. He had little interest in school and at 18 began several years of wandering about in the Black Forest and northern Italy as "a transitional beatnik." He drew constantly and studied painting. But in 1927 a friend who had already joined Freud's circle invited Erikson to Vienna to help...
...operation necessary? Not according to Captain E. Noel Preston, a pediatrician stationed at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. Writing in the A.M.A. Journal, Preston notes that the operation, performed from three to eight days after birth, can produce immediate complications in the newborn, such as hemorrhage and infection, plus later problems like painful urination and bed-wetting in older children...
After boasting about their newborn's first smile, many proud parents are deflated by the pediatrician's cool remark: "It's only gas." Not so, says Psychiatrist Robert N. Emde of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Having studied more than 300 beaming babies in the past nine years, Dr. Emde reports that infants have two quite different kinds of smiles, neither of which has anything to do with...
...When the system fails to respond to all normal means and channels," Pediatrician Benjamin Spock told a gathering of 2,500 University of Hartford students last week, "then you must become more dramatic in your tactics. You know that the majority of American people do not give a damn about granting equal rights to blacks, poor people and other minority groups." Spock nonetheless urged his audience to avoid violence and said he did not believe that violent revolution was possible in the U.S. To Spock, 67, there is a better way. Said he: "I will work within the system...
...pediatrician's findings were reassuring. Because antibody levels induced by vaccination are lower than those produced by the natural disease, Veronelli is doubtful about long-term protection from the vaccines. Only periodic blood testing of the young recipients will tell. In the meantime, Veronelli urges continued research efforts to develop a killed-virus rubella vaccine, which would provide safe booster protection even in early pregnancy...