Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with his job and his fellow workers. One day he suddenly blew up and was dragged away, struggling, to a hospital. There he quickly developed total amnesia; he could not even recognize his wife. A month later, still in a mental fog, he was examined by Boston's Psychiatrist Abraham Myerson...
Miss O'Hara, outraged, sets the house psychiatrist (Porter Hall) on Kris Kringle, but "Mister Macy" calls off the goons when it develops that Kris has turned one of the most lucrative good-will tricks in commercial history. "Mister Gimbel" hurriedly returns the compliment-he and Mister Macy are even photographed shaking hands-and the whole Manhattan department-store trade glows with the new love-your-neighbor policy...
...villainous psychiatrist maneuvers Kris into a sanity trial, during which Attorney John Payne, a glad eye on Miss O'Hara, manages by elaborate legal flummery to have him declared competent. By the fadeout, not only the courts of New York State but 20th Century-Fox itself are ready to insist that there really is a Santa Claus, and that Mr. Gwenn...
...meet their postwar responsibilities, he implies, they had better pay less attention to rich ladies with imaginary complaints in their heads and jewels on their fingers, and more to the unhappy man in the streets. The war, says ex-Brigadier General Menninger (the Army's chief wartime psychiatrist) brought psychiatry to a crossroads: "We may continue to permit our chief emphasis to be . . . in seeing six or eight analytic patients a day in our ivory towers. We can go on talking our jargon . . . [or] we can turn up the road which leads us to the broad field of social...
...collect funds for research and public education. A.P.A.'s newly organized Psychiatric Foundation, starting life penniless, hopes by public education to attract more medical students into psychiatry, and to "combat the stigma connected with mental illness" which still keeps thousands of emotionally frazzled people from consulting a psychiatrist...