Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Viewers who resist change can find something familiar in ABC's Breaking Point, the season's new addition to the psycho ward. Following the tried Kil-casey formula, there's a young, straight-talking psychiatrist and an old, knowing psychiatrist. There is also a slosh of psychiatric midden. How long will TV go on mistaking mental upset for high drama...
...Caretakers, we move to another kind of insanity. Robert Stack is the good psychiatrist who thinks patients should be understood. When he speaks, nothing in his entire body moves but his mouth, which is usually saying something like "Don't you see, Miss Terry, what a little affection would do?" Stack's evil opponent is Joan Crawford, the tough head nurse who favors "the intelligent use of force." There are numerous other wooden people: the cute nurse who tells an earnest young doctor, "You talk like a poet," the very sick girl, who talks for the first time in years...
...ELEVENTH HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Ralph Bellamy makes his debut as chief psychiatrist in this season's series of psychiatric adventures. Tonight's story deals with infidelity...
...record, Psychiatrist Robert Coles, 33, should be tending bothered Brahmins on Boston's Beacon Street. A graduate of Milton Academy and Harvard (magna), Coles got his M.D. at Columbia and trained at proper Boston hospitals, from Children's to McLean to Massachusetts General. He even married a Hallowell-a word that some Boston tots think is part of the Lord's Prayer: "Hallowell be thy name...
...would like to retire some day to a farm to write plays. In the meantime, he finds that his television work is a "way of learning" to write that both exhilarates and terrifies him. He is so compulsively chained to his typewriter that he recently decided to consult a psychiatrist to determine what the compulsion is all about. On the other hand, he wakes up every morning in terror, convinced that his writing is "just a trick, and people will get on to it." Television, says he, "is a form not of masochism but of martyrdom. I believe...