Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faced Colonel General Jurgen von Arnim, captive commander of Axis North African armies, complained of a soldier's ailment (flat feet). He also showed signs of a beaten general's occupational ailments-mental depression and an anxiety neurosis. For the latter trouble, the British called in a psychiatrist...
...Psychiatrist Daniel Blain, 44, is in charge of the homes, mapped out the treatment. Average stay is three weeks. Average population of a home is 35 to 50. At this rate the homes can rehabilitate 4,000 men a year. Treatment is of two kinds: 1) "supportive," i.e., food, rest, quiet, sedation, vitamins, personal attention, recreation, exercise, occupational therapy; 2) psychotherapy by personal interview and group talks, to help a man understand his condition and bring about his own cure...
Last week the remarkable fourfold career of the author of these words was ended by death in his 72nd year. He was kindly, white-haired John Rathbone Oliver of Baltimore-physician, psychiatrist, professor and priest. Countless Johns Hopkins students, Baltimoreans of all stations and readers of his books remember Dr. Oliver as one of the most unusual and winning personalities of his time...
After lunch Oliver the psychiatrist received private patients in two dimly-lit rooms in Baltimore's Latrobe Apartments. Originally he had had to borrow money to furnish them, carefully seeing that they looked like a private apartment rather than a doctor's office. Soon he was doing a brisk business, got the reputation of the city's No. 1 psychiatrist...
...psychiatrist thought this was funny. He thought it was practically riotous. He tipped back precariously in his chair and roared until that corrugated box shook on its foundations. Then suddenly he stopped and yelled, 'Next." before I ever had a chance to ask him if he knew of Professor Allport...