Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than 4,000 trained psychiatrists, concentrated in a few areas. Chief problem of the Army, in its effort to keep out wackies, is how to divide 4,000 by 6,253 draft boards. Chief brooder over this tricky psycho-arithmetic problem is redhaired, chunky Colonel Leonard George Rowntree of Philadelphia Institute for Medical Research. Colonel Rowntree's best solution to date: a group of 600 psychiatrists delegated to medical advisory boards in about 50 key cities. These psychiatrists conduct two-day seminars in various regions to tip off local board physicians to neurotic danger signals. As an example...
...Funny. Psychiatrist Bernard Glueck of Ossining, N. Y. thought his colleagues were beating about the bush. "It is difficult,'' said he, "not to be somewhat amused by this general tendency to put all faith in more research as the solution." Physicians, said he, know enough to cure drunkenness. There are as many varieties of alcoholics as there are cabbages: some have an inferiority complex; some learn in college; others are social misfits or homosexuals. Psychiatrists can cure most alcoholics, provided that: 1) the patient really wants to be cured; 2) he stays with the doctor long enough...
...coat be searched. In it was found a foot-long jack handle-"a fine instrument for murder," as Mr. Anthony now points out. From this distraught juvenile, Mr. Anthony won a promise not to do anything until the next day. By that time Mr. Anthony had a psychiatrist ready, who subsequently worked a cure...
Many a modern psychiatrist believes that trying to make a left-handed child write with his right is a crime only less heinous than making him eat spinach. Their theory: switching hands upsets a child emotionally, often causes stuttering. Last week a graduate student at Syracuse University threw doubt on this theory. Prompted by Professor Harry J. Heltman, chairman of Syracuse's School of Speech, Graduate Student Elizabeth Daniels had examined 1,594 Syracuse freshmen, learned that...
...this view Psychiatrist Abraham Myerson of Harvard entered a strong demurrer. "It is not true, in my opinion," wrote he, "that excessive drinking springs mainly from neurosis, psychosis or conflict." As proof, Dr. Myerson pointed to the fact that women and Jews, two groups which have "their full share" of mental disorders, have a very small percentage of alcoholism. Their temperance rests on "social tradition and social pressure." There would be "universal horror and social condemnation," said Dr. Myerson, if Radcliffe girls went out on wholesale benders like "lusty, gusty Harvard men." The Jews, he continued, "have always lived...