Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swiss Psychiatrist Hermann Rohrschach started something when he began making blot-pictures, by folding a piece of paper on a blob of ink. He showed the "pictures" to patients in a sanitarium and asked them what they saw. He tried hundreds of blot-pictures, finally selected ten which seemed to bring out the clearest responses. Today, after 20 years, psychologists all over the world have adopted his blots, use the Rohrschach Test not only to ferret out neuroses but also for vocational testing...
...Buffalo Advertising Club last week heard a Manhattan psychiatrist on the subject of a couple of soap operas, and was he burned up! Clinical studies of such programs are rare, though clinical studies of their listeners abound. Dr. Louis Berg took only a casual interest in soap operas until some of his women patients suffered relapses after listening to them...
...learned series of articles in the quarterly Psychiatry, Manhattan Psychiatrist Dr. David Mordecai Levy tells how tight apron strings, excessive mothering, make problem children...
...psychiatrist who teaches parlor magic and a psychiatrist who measures the smiles of patients last week solemnly reported on their work...
Thimbles, Cards and Rope. Psychiatrist Douglas McGlashan Kelley, who is director of the psychopathic ward in San Francisco Hospital, teaches simple tricks to victims .of certain mental diseases. His theory: patients who have withdrawn into themselves from shyness, inferiority complexes or mild schizophrenia (split personality) can become the life of the party if they are taught parlor magic. The tricks they learn, said Dr. Kelley, "require no brains and can't go wrong...