Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your remarks regarding my editorial in the American Journal of Surgery . . . made for an erroneous indictment of both the physician and the psychiatrist. I neither said nor implied that "Almost every patient who dies of carcinoma . . . has been diagnosed as a psychoneurotic" [TIME, June 21]. The dots delete the important words: "of the body or tail of the pancreas." This tumor . . . gives no physical signs and produces no symptoms other than a vague abdominal pain, and furthermore, defies all methods of diagnosis including X-ray and laboratory studies. Only surgical exploration will provide the answer...
Critic John Mason Brown recently called comic books "the marijuana of the nursery." Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham ranked them among the chief "contributing causes of juvenile delinquency." Disgusted by the sex, violence and crime they were peddling, druggists in South Bend refused last week to sell comic books in their stores...
More in sorrow than in anger, a prominent psychiatrist named Dr. Lawrence S. Kubie last week unraveled the Kinsey Report. Despite his professional courtesy and his careful occasional praise, Dr. Kubie's article, in the current Psychosomatic Medicine, was the most devastating scientific attack on the report...
Caricatured Psychiatrists. When he discusses Kinsey's attitude toward psychiatrists, Dr. Kubie loses his proper bedside manner entirely. It almost seems, he laments, that the Kinsey Report is trying to caricature the psychiatrist. He cites one statement: "There are some psychoanalysts who contend that they never had a patient who has not had incestuous relations." Snapped Kubie: "There has never been and never will be any psychoanalyst who has made such a statement . . . We expect such distortions from occasional biased and irresponsible ignoramuses, but not from responsible fellow scientists...
Columbia University Psychiatrist Abram Kardiner attacked what he called Kinsey's plea for tolerance toward perversion. Moral laws that separate men from the other animals are not "historical happenstance"; they grew, he said, out of necessity for control...