Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient, a middle-aged businessman, faced the sanatorium psychiatrist defiantly. His wife was leaving him and his business partner was quitting. In the last, taut stage of a prodigious binge, the patient announced importantly that he had come to "dry out" again...
...psychiatrist said quietly: "Not this time. You will sign yourself in for 30 days or go somewhere else...
...more often, people experienced a wild sense of frustration. Said Dr. J. P. Hilton, a Denver psychiatrist: "The driver behind a traffic crawler gets angry. His reason departs. He wants to ram through, to pass, to punish the object of his anger." Did the doctor feel the same way? "And how," he said, and shuddered. "I dream of wide highways and no automobiles-no automobiles...
That was a typical evening last week at Harlem's Lafargue Clinic. The doctor-famed Psychiatrist Frederic Wertham (TIME Feb. 18, 1946). Dr. Wertham's clime, launched without a cent of backing 21 months ago, is little richer than when it started, but it has become an impressive, going concern. Its staff, all unpaid includes 14 psychiatrists, 12 topflight social workers, a dozen other specialists and clerical workers...
Ever since he was a young psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Wertham had brooded over the fact that Negroes even if they could afford a psychiatrist' could seldom get one. (Of some 4,500 U.S. psychiatrists, fewer than 25 are Negroes.) With the enthusiastic help of Negro friends, Dr. Wertham and his colleagues found a home for a clinic in the basement of Harlem's St. Philip's Episcopal Church, and opened it to all comers. Fee per treatment (if the patient...