Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is evidence that the most intelligent students are the most susceptible to emotional illness, a University Health Service psychiatrist told the American College Health Association yesterday in Washington...
...psychiatrist, Dr. Armand M. Nicholai Jr., presented some preliminary findings of a study he is making of 1,454 students who dropped out of Harvard between...
...implication that many students who seek psychiatric help may already have been seen in the medical or surgical clinics, and some signs of their psychic distress may have been evident at that time. Many people apparently find it easier to go to the general physician rather than the psychiatrist. The results do indicate the value of close collaboration between the psychiatrist and the internist and surgeon, both before and after psychotherapy has begun...
...psychiatrists warn that the value is limited. Strong-egoed subjects, for example, are apt to be largely unaffected by the drugs. Those most susceptible, the weak-willed and guilt-ridden, may succumb so completely, says Psychiatrist Fredrick Redlich, Yale's new medical dean (TIME, March 24), that they say what they sense their interrogator wants to hear. This can confound even highly trained psychiatrists. Truth drugs, says Redlich, put patients in "a twilight zone where it is very difficult to tell truth from fantasy." Some people, in fact, can lie at will under the truth drugs. In an experiment...
...problem is the fact that disturbed people who believe their own fantasies continue to do so even under truth drugs-a factor that also is known to produce unreliable results on polygraph (lie detector) tests. The Kennedy assassination, of course, holds particular fascination for many such individuals. Houston Psychiatrist C. A. Dwyer says that he knows of 15 people in his city alone who have spun incredible tales about the assassination (one tells of having seen Jacqueline Kennedy give Lee Harvey Oswald money), adds that some of them would probably give much the same accounts under the effects of thiopental...