Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...describe the full extent of his disturbance. "In order to give the student his choice." Blaine continues, "we read him the text of our evaluation before sending it off." There is, of course, always the option of lying when asked whether you have ever been to see a psychiatrist-but on all of the government forms for either employment or grants, the small print at the bottom advises the applicant of the heavy jail term for falsification...
...order to cope with the increase, a walk-in clinic was established where students could come in with their problems between nine and twelve on week-days and be seen by a senior psychiatrist. The psychiatrist quickly weights the case and decides whether the student could wait for a regular appointment or should be treated immediately. Before the clinic was established. Blaine explained, this important decision was often made by a secretary. After regular hours, there is always at least one psychiatrist on emergency call...
Numerous students complain that although the walk-in clinic looks efficient enough, once you have had your initial interview, it often takes weeks before an appointment slot is open. One student recounted how when he went to UHS and asked for a psychiatrist, he was immediately shuttled off into a little room where a doctor asked him if he had ever contemplated suicide. Once having convinced the doctor that he was not suicidal, he was issued three tranquilizers and sent away. After waiting two weeks for an appointment he found a private psychiatrist outside of the Health Center...
...result most of these students either don't go to UHS or else quickly abandon the psychiatrist they have been assigned. Some of these students--popularly considered the alienated fringe but probably closer to the norm at Harvard than elsewhere--find sympathetic listeners in the Soc Rel Department; others have talked with Robert M. Coles, research psychiatrist...
MANY COLLEGE students will use the services of a psychiatrist or psychologist during their undergraduate years, where such services are adequate and readily available. Delineation of the characteristics of students who are likely to seek psychological help can be useful to psychiatric and counseling services in planning for optimum care, both in terms of prevention and treatment. This paper-presents data on students who sought psychiatric help in college and compares them with students who did not receive such help...