Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MURDER-Helen McCoy- Morrow ($2). The actor who portrayed a dying man in a Manhattan revival of Sar-dou's Fedora turns out to be very dead indeed when the curtain goes down. Psychiatrist-detective Basil Willing, working on tenuous clues and a wide knowledge of abnormal psychology, finally snares a persistent and excellently hidden criminal in a trap that almost ends the doctor's own career. Credible stage atmosphere and an airtight plot...
...Arkansas' inferiority complex, the war boom was just what the psychiatrist ordered. Arkansans found the whole U.S. grateful for the bauxite mines (for aluminum). Their industrialists snagged $400,000,000 in war contracts. Arkansans bustled off to war jobs with lifted chins and level eyes...
Theory B. The second theory was advanced by Dr. Frederic Wertham, New York criminal psychiatrist, on new research presumably not available yet in Australia. In Dr. Wertham's psychiatric terminology, the Leonski case was that of catathymic crisis resulting from the same mother fixation which plagued Shakespeare's Hamlet, which for centuries has driven certain types of thwarted men to kill the thing they love the most. Leonski, according to Dr. Wertham, was a lonely, heartsick tenement boy suddenly deprived of all sense of comfort and personal love. Under these circumstances the inhibitions piled up from the time...
DESIGN IN EVIL-Rufus King-Crime Club ($2). Shanghaied Manhattan maiden on an outbound motor cruiser is in a sad plight when a psychiatrist insists that she is schizophrenic, and the subsequent stabbing of a frightened woman is charged to her account. A tempest-tossed thriller with interesting psychological overtones...
...There is no special treatment for alcoholism. Some passionate or sociable drunkards can be weaned by a psychiatrist. Some become religious converts, join revival and temperance groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, a proselytizing fellowship of 6,000 ex-alcoholics. Others can be conditioned to vomit at the mere sight of liquor (TIME, April...