Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naming of a psychiatrist to head a medical school is unusual but not un precedented.-Dr. Redlich himself sees it as a symbol of improved status for his specialty. "A generation ago," he said, "I'm sure Yale wouldn't have considered a psychiatrist for dean. But now we are taken much more seriously...
...cultural anthropology from Syracuse, served on the staff of the U.S. embassy in Paris, taught at the State University of New York for three years before moving to Berkeley in 1965. He has four books to his credit, including a study called The Revolution in Psychiatry that California Social Psychiatrist Martin Hoffman rates as "one of the most important theoretical works written in psychiatry in the last quarter-century." Becker has also written a primer on Zen and a critique of U.S. education that the Daily Californian praised as "a manifesto for academic revolution...
...less subtle title of How to Be have. The first and only socialist book of manners, it contains a refresher course in gentility for the comrades, who have long been taught as part of Communist dogma to regard all high manners as decadent. Its author is a Prague psychiatrist, Milena Majorová, who reminds her readers at the outset that "human beings are not polar bears -they are not satisfied with merely a female of the species and enough food...
...novel's beginning, its hero, "Y," is incarcerated in a small room from which he is allowed to emerge once or twice a day in the company of a guard-and then only to visit a man who is either his warder or his psychiatrist. Y has come to think of this man as the Hen, and his prison as the Henhouse. At first, the sessions between Y and warder seem to be a form of psychotherapy. But there is something sinister in the Hen's objective; he seems to want Y to wallow in instances of minor...
...psychiatrist would say that certain personality types choose certain instruments. A conductor would say it makes no difference, since all musicians are the same - outpatients...