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Research and teaching in abnormal personality began at Harvard in 1927 when the late Morton Prince, professor of Social Ethics, and Henry Murray '15, professor emeritus of Psychology, then a young physician, set up the Harvard Student Clinic on Plympton Street. The Plympton Clinic was at first primarily a center for personality research. However, in 1946 the Veterans' Administration, faced with thousands of returning shell-shocked G.I.s began to fund graduate programs in university psychology departments to train non-medical psychotherapists to cope with the needs of these veterans. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) added more money...
Paradoxically, it was Physician Masters and his wife Virginia Johnson who initiated the concept of sex clinics. In 14 years of investigation at their Reproductive Biology Research Foundation in St. Louis, they demonstrated that "sexual dysfunction" is treatable and gave sex counseling a respectability it had never before enjoyed. Now, however, Masters and Johnson find themselves treating not only first-time patients but also psychological casualties of other, irresponsible clinics...
...minimize the chance of falling into the hands of charlatans, Masters suggests, would-be patients should be sure that any therapist they plan to consult has some professional qualifications-for instance, that he is a reputable physician, psychologist or marriage counselor. The patient should also verify that the clinic has a good reputation, that treatment will be confidential, and that no unrealistic promises of cure are made. He also advises patients to shun clinics advertising in the yellow pages or in cheap magazines. But the only real solution, he points out, is to shut down the street-corner clinics. That...
...eliminated or at least curtailed. Some argue that receiving free medical care makes it awkward to be critical about the treatment if it is unsatisfactory. Others feel that friends may be unwilling to perform embarrassing but vital procedures. For example, in giving a doctor friend a general checkup, one physician failed to perform a rectal examination. The patient was later found to have inoperable cancer of the prostate...
Mercy killing is illegal in most countries: in a recent trial in the Netherlands, for example, a famous physician was found guilty in the mercy killing of her terminally ill mother. This, however, brought forward a large number of doctors who admitted that they had induced painless death in patients who preferred to die rather than to continue suffering. Although most doctors in the United States say they will not perform actual mercy killings under any circumstances, some favor such a practice if the patient, family and attending physicians conclude that it is the most "humane" solution...