Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Psychiatrist Verdel does not like the term "hopeless." But all 106 men in his pilot group, he said last week, had failed to respond to other methods of treatment. They had been at the hospital for varying periods up to five years;* 95% had schizophrenia, one of the most difficult mental diseases to treat...
...Verdel and Staff Psychiatrist William L. Harris worked out a full timetable of intensive treatment that left no time for the patients to retreat into their own sick fancies. The system worked. Out of the 106 patients, 16 were able to go home, and two of the 16 had full-time jobs; 4 more were about ready for trial leaves; 45 others were "good prospects" for release...
Like many another copybook maxim, the old saw about an idle mind being the devil's workshop has validity in psychiatry as well as in everyday life. A little over a year ago, Psychiatrist Louis F. Verdel, manager of the Veterans Administration Hospital at Northport, N.Y., began an experiment that leaned heavily on the maxim. Dr. Verdel decided to keep a test group of mental patients so busy that they would have no time to mope, brood or withdraw from reality...
...Dark Past (Columbia) is a study of a vicious young killer (William Holden) who is as afraid of his own twisted dreams as he is of the law. When he escapes from prison and holes up with his pals in the weekend cottage of a shrewd psychiatrist (Lee J. Cobb), he finally learns from the doctor-too late-that an Oedipus complex has helped to give him a killer's warped personality...
...Radio Columnist John Crosby, who thought he detected a likeness between the whiskered shmoo and a certain Chicago newspaper publisher, the book was "one of the finest satiric creations since Gulliver's Travels." (No, said Capp modestly, that was overrating Dean Swift.) To Dr. Frederic Wertham, a Manhattan psychiatrist who crusades against comic books, the shmoo offered "a solution of human problems on the same spurious level as Nietzsche's superman or the Superman of the comic books. It is a super-animal...