Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cleaver would have monopolized the course. He was to have been one of 12 speakers, including a psychiatrist, a Mexican-American writer, and Oakland Chief of Police Charles Gain, whom the Panthers scarcely view with academic detachment. For all that, Cleaver's appointment to speak produced an incendiary reaction. Among the first to explode was State Schools Superintendent Max Rafferty, a master of gothic prose and a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. Said he: "Cleaver is certainly as well qualified to lecture on urban unrest as Attila the Hun would be qualified to lecture on international mass murder...
When doomsayers are bemoaning the human condition, a refreshing breeze blew out of Missouri from famed Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, 75. "A hundred years ago, violence was much worse than it is today," the chairman of the board of trustees of the Menninger Foundation told a group of Park College students. "You say it isn't safe to walk down the streets today. It never was safe to walk down some streets." The world, insisted Menninger, "is getting better. We're getting better control of violence and of our own behavior than we've ever had before." Then...
Only the naive believe that patients in a state mental hospital get much personal attention from psychiatrists. There are too few psychiatrists and too many patients; the ratio is about 1 to 100. Many of the doctors are administrators who never see patients, and most of them have at least some administrative duties. And after the doctor takes out time for staff meetings and professional conferences, the patient is lucky if he gets 15 minutes of a psychiatrist's time a week...
Nowhere is the psychiatric approach to screening more distrusted than in the South and Southwest. None of the big cities in Texas, Oklahoma or New Mexico, for example, employ a psychiatrist or psychologist to look over job candidates. Atlanta Police Chief Herbert Jenkins relies on dozens of interviews with the applicant's acquaintances. "We're looking for a man who is able to get along with people, period," says Jenkins. "That may sound very amateurish, but it's the best psychological test that can be made...
Many psychologists argue that pistol play is a realistic way of releasing aggression. Moreover, points out Dr. Sirgay Sanger, child psychiatrist at Manhattan's Payne Whitney Clinic: "Forbiddance only leads to fascination." Thus, total disarmament is probably unattainable. While there is a piece of wood handy and a boy to shout "Bang, bang, you're dead!," toy guns are likely to remain a part of childhood...