Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Farnsworth recognizes the overcrowding problem but there is not much he can do about it. It is the dilemma of the administrator who does not control unlimited funds. But, Dr. Farnsworth quickly points out, no patient ever has to wait to see a psychiatrist if he is deemed an emergency case--that is, if he has become psychotic...
...determined to keep it personal," he emphasizes. Dr. Farnsworth is the creator of the giant complex of men, machines, and buildings which is the University Health Services. But he is also a psychiatrist, author of many books on student problems, and a genuine interested-but-not-pushy father figure, who prefers talking about young people to talking about the headaches of administration. And he wants to keep his baby from turning into a Frankenstein...
Many a lost lad, however, has second thoughts about going to the University Health Service psychiatrists. They fear, and with some justification, that a record of their weak moments will work against them when applying to graduate school and for future jobs. Graham Blaine, Chief Psychiatrist at UHS, admits that many students are discouraged from using the Psychiatric facilities because they know that they will be questioned about any treatment they have received. Blaine, however, maintains that the fault is with the grad school and job application questionnaires and not with the confidentiality of the psychiatric records...
...never give out a student's record to anyone until he has signed a release," Blaine said. But students are put under not-so-subtle pressure to sign the release. First the applicant will be asked if he has ever been to see a psychiatrist. If he says yes, he is asked to sign a release. If he refuses to sign a release, it will probably be assumed that he is hiding something...
After Dr. Walters read his paper, a bearded psychiatrist from Berkeley chatted informally ("I don't write papers," he said) about the California hipp and suggested that Western man's trouble is that he cannot fulfill his dreams. He concluded by playing for the doctors two sections from a recent Rolling Stones album...