Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambition to climb the hierarchy of some established institution. On the contrary, the institution may have been compromised in his eyes. He does not feel so strongly the compulsion to outdo Daddy or the Joneses; he may pay them the supreme insult of ignoring their way of life altogether. Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton speaks of a new kind of "Protean Man" who has been cut adrift from the traditions and expectations of the past. Without moorings, he moves from one activity or ideology to the next in the hope of ultimately finding himself. In a way, today's restless...
Occasionally, after seeing a girl for one or two sessions, he will recommend that she see a psychiatrist. But, for the most part, he says, "They don't need that. A psychiatrist almost never deal with a relationship, but with a person...
...from Boston. As a division of psychiatry, crisis intervention developed in part from a study in Boston that followed the tragic Cocoanut Grove fire of 1942, in which 492 died. Interested in emotional response to bereavement, a Boston psychiatrist, Dr. Erich Lindemann, questioned relatives of the dead. He found that the human capacity to cope with problems, which is not innate but gained through experience, often falters in a time of crisis, like the sudden loss of a loved...
Defense testimony by two psychiatrists and six psychologists was often obscure, at times conflicting-and never convincing to 'the jury. When the defense pressed its experts for judgments on Sirhan's sanity, the imprecision of the science became obvious. Each psychologist and psychiatrist seemed to have a slightly different theory about Sirhan's mental state. "All those psychiatrists-they really had us all stirred up," said Albert N. Frederico, a plumber. "It was confusing. It stunk...
PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, by Philip Roth. This frenzied monologue by a sex-obsessed Jewish bachelor on a psychiatrist's couch becomes a comic novel about the absurdly painful wounds created by guilt and puritanism...