Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collapsed, leaving these semi-suicides incapable of love, joy, sorrow, aspiration, regret. When examined in hospitals, they are often alert, bright, cheerful, amiable, sometimes haughty and aloof; but they usually think very highly of themselves, are always wholly callous to the distress they cause others. To the knowing psychiatrist, their eloquent admissions of error and promises to reform are catchwords which have no meaning to the patient but which he has learned will impress others...
...motor activity spontaneously, can even pursue pure contemplation (as in pondering a problem). "Between energy [i.e., matter] and mind," says Sherrington, "science has found no 'how' of give and take. . . . Physiology has not enough to offer about the brain in relation to the mind to lend the psychiatrist much help...
...Named veteran Careerman Gardiner Howland Shaw, 47, of Boston, Assistant Secretary of State. Shaw, a thin, monastic, handsome bachelor, a Harvardman, joined the Department in 1917. Careerman Shaw has three passions: his job, his religion (he is a Catholic convert), prison reform. An amateur psychiatrist, Shaw became so knowledgeable on prison methods that the Turkish Government once used him as an unofficial adviser on penal institutions, named a hill in Imrali Island penal colony after him. He has been chief of the Near East division (1927-31), Embassy counselor at Istanbul (1930-37), Foreign Service Personnel chief since...
Runaways. Huckleberry Finn was one of the classic child runaways of literature, but he was not typical; in fact, he was a wholly fantastic creation. But he was no subject for a psychiatrist. Cheerful, resourceful and self-reliant beyond his years, he ran away to escape his drunken father, from whom he wanted nothing. Ortho-psychiatrists say that real runaways make off because they want something they don't get-attention, reassurance, or peace between parents-or as a heroic adventure to compensate for feeling inferior...
...result, the State took control of Byberry away from the city, put it under the charge of Dr. Herbert Codey Woolley, a well-known psychiatrist. Everyone felt better about Byberry. But last week Philadelphia papers headlined Byberry again as a House of Horrors. Two attendants, one a middleweight boxer, the other an ex-sailor, were accused of beating patients to death. The boxer confessed to slugging two; the ex-sailor, one. Another attendant was held as an accessory. Neither Dr. Woolley nor any of the staff members were held, although they may be called up for questioning, for they...