Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alex Inkeles, with a group started in 1961, is studying how work in factories or comparable enterprises affects a person's attitudes and habits that relate to his adjustment to a developing country...
Checkmate. On behalf of the analytic school, London's Dr. Ronald David Laing says: "Schizophrenia is not a disease at all. And in contrast with traditional thinking, schizophrenia is not in one person but is between people. It represents a broken-down relationship, and the way to mend it is to involve the schizophrenic in a relationship that means something to him." Dr. Laing, 38, does not claim to have originated this idea. It traces back to the brilliant American psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949), whose theories have been neglected partly because he wrote in obscure jargon. Sullivan...
After Dr. Laing and his colleagues had studied scores of patients in painstaking detail, they concluded: "The experience and behavior that are labeled schizophrenic are a special sort of strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable position. He cannot make a move, or make no move, without being beset by contradictory pressures both internally, from himself, and externally, from those around him. He is in a position of checkmate." Before schizophrenia can be better understood and its treatment improved, psychiatry itself must undergo a deep change, Dr. Laing believes. He insists that a mental hospital...
...uncertainty to "inverted liberalism," which he says has resulted in taboos against research on genetic differences. He charges that such institutions as the Federal Government and the American Anthropological Association have discouraged investigation because they might reach "unpalatable" conclusions. "Our intellectuals." he says, "treat this problem like a frightened person who hides an uncertainty even from himself and does not expose a tumor to a doctor's inspection...
...What has made her the driving, well-organized person that she is? "My father," she replies, without a moment's pause...