Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What this country needs is a good five-cent psychiatrist...
Although electric shock may not replace the standard insulin treatment, most psychiatrists think it far superior to metrazol. Its advantages: 1) the convulsions are not usually as violent as those produced by metrazol; 2) since patients lose consciousness immediately, they do not remember the frightening "aura" that precedes a metrazol convulsion; 3) electric treatment is much cheaper than insulin or metrazol-a machine costs less than $300. But electric shock is safe only in the hands of a trained psychiatrist...
...Klemperer as "dangerous and insane," bearing a cane which he "likes to use on policemen." Next day the conductor was picked up in Morristown, N.J. by police who grabbed first the cane, then him. Jailed for 26 hours, he was released when his wife flew East from California. A psychiatrist examined Conductor Klemperer, pronounced him sane but "nervous, temperamental and unstrung...
...disease, "evacuosis," has become so serious that the Ministry of Health has stationed a psychiatrist in each reception area. Typical case: a twelve-year-old girl, homesick, stole twelve toys from a store, wrapped each in a package with a note (e.g., "With love from Cousin Gloria"), posted them all to herself...
Some of Dr. Cleckley's case histories show people who have only partly developed semantic dementia, who are able to keep out of serious trouble and even succeed in a profession-one a doctor, another a psychiatrist...