Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movie is a series of one-liners and short skits involving the Oedipian Walter Dinsmore. The straightmen are the black comedy figures of the New York Scene: the bald psychiatrist (who speaks like Groucho Marx), the underground movie maker ("in underground movies the action is all behind the camera"), and the Jewish caterer. The show recalls the most thunderous moments of burlesque, irreverence armed and swaggering...
...trial last January, he fired his lawyer, Frances Kahn, because she was a "prosecution spy" and took over his own defense. The detective who arrested him he called a "sadist." Assistant District Attorney Frank Rogers became the "persecutor." Judge Gellinoff was an "animal." Once, while cross-examining a prosecution psychiatrist, Kayo posed an hour-long hypothetical question. "Now, Doctor," he finally concluded, "assuming everything I said to be true, do you have an opinion as to whether District Attorney Rogers is crazy?" Improper, ruled the court wearily. "Why, Judge?" asked Kayo. "Anybody who would try me on these preposterous charges...
Waste Not. To carry out the study, the U.S. Army sent Captain Peter G. Bourne to Viet Nam. Although he is a psychiatrist, Dr. Bourne decided to use biochemical indicators of servicemen's reactions to combat and the threat of death. In Saigon he made friends with the medical corpsmen of helicopter ambulance crews since they were medically oriented and most likely to cooperate in his demanding routines. They agreed to run a daily check list of their emotional changes...
Such problems are not exclusive with the poor. Last week, during a private lecture at a California resort for the well-to-do, a psychiatrist asked 30 assembled mothers whether they would give birth-control pills to their teen-age daughters. Only a few said no. Most were undecided. One-third said yes, definitely-and one mother announced that she was already slipping the pill into her daughter's breakfast milk...
...mind between his ideal self, and what he now sees as his real self manifests itself in severe depression," the psychiatrist observed...