Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel William Claire Menninger, famed psychiatrist (not to be confused with his brother, Karl Augustus Menninger, still holding the fort at the brothers' Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kans.), warned Army doctors never to lose patience with soldiers with imaginary ills-most of them need psychiatric care. An Army doctor who says "The bastard isn't going to get away with that" may be merely venting his own resentment at the deprivations he suffers from being in military service. Doctors, Colonel Menninger pointed out, make more financial sacrifice on joining up than any other group...
...veteran Vaudevillian Frank Fay (as is Elwood's harassed sister by Josephine Hull). Fay not only makes Elwood a fine fellow when he is riding high; he makes him an even finer one when, in a tricky scene where mood is everything, he quietly talks to a psychiatrist about himself and Harvey, and sometimes doesn't talk-only sits and stares...
Just as Dr. Chumley, the psychiatrist at the sanatarium, is about to give Elwood a shot of Formula X to cure what supposedly ails him, the taxi driver who has brought the Dowds to the institution comes in for his money. Vita and Myrtle find they're fresh out, so they stop the injection and tell Elwood to pay the man. Elwood in his pleasant and disarming way discusses life with the cab driver, invites him over to the house for dinner, and makes the duped young fellow forget all about the $2.75. But the cabbie likes Elwood...
...Psychiatry more than any other branch of medicine emphasizes the necessity of moral and ethical values. ... It is precisely at the point where the human character can no longer direct his God-given will-power that disease begins." The psychiatrist's most important role is as a diagnostician, to determine where that point...
...certain whether insulin shock brings about more ultimate remissions of dementia praecox (psychiatrists never speak of cures) than would occur anyhow. All that is certain is that it cuts the average hospital stay. And no one yet knows just how any kind of shock therapy works: some think results come from temporarily depriving the brain of oxygen or of sugar, its only food; some suggest that individual attention and the short psychiatric session following each shock are really what do the trick. Otherwise, because of the psychiatrist shortage, a therapeutic psychiatric interview is a rare event in a state mental...