Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average man doesn't know much about psychiatry, but he knows what he dislikes and suspects about it. One psychiatrist, paraphrasing Artemus Ward, has said of his specialty: "In no other field of medical knowledge does the average man know so many things that...
Freud was, without any dispute, the father of modern psychiatry. He started fights that are still raging; but every psychiatrist, pure Freudian or not, admits his debt to the master. During the past 25 years, Freud's ideas have in some way influenced-or thrilled or outraged-almost every literate person on earth...
...Does It Work? How does a psychiatrist straighten out the conflicts? Freud, after finding hypnotism inadequate, devised the most sneered-at tool in all psychiatry: the couch. The couch is supposed to make the patient relax. The analyst places his chair at the head of the couch, where he is unseen by the patient. The idea is to get the patient to put all his thoughts and feelings into words. Such "free association" is the essence of psychoanalysis...
Bacteria & a Mother-in-Law. Very few -only one-tenth-of U.S. psychiatrists are out & out psychoanalysts. But any psychiatrist may try to find out a patient's troubles by thoughtful questioning. Dr. Will Menninger describes himself as a "psychodynamic psychiatrist." Says he: "The distinction between Freudian psychiatrists and non-Freudians is becoming infinitesimal. Dynamic psychiatry is being accepted more & more widely ... In other words, people are beginning to see that damage of the same kind can be done by a bullet, bacteria or a mother-in-law." The extreme Freudian approach, he thinks, is "almost metaphysical." Although strong...
...Angeles company was manufacturing a brassiere for cows. A canvas affair, constructed with four elongated sacks which cradle a cow's teats, it was invented by a Phoenix, Ariz. psychiatrist. He confidently estimated that it would increase bossy's production from 25 to 35% by aiding the flow of milk into her udder...