Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accuser, Whittaker Chambers, made no sense at all; what could his motive have been for accusing an innocent man? The only plausible answer: he must have been mad. From the start, people who could not accept Hiss's guilt took refuge in that belief. Now a reputable psychiatrist has written a massive book in support of that thesis...
...person but is between people. It represents a broken-down relationship, and the way to mend it is to involve the schizophrenic in a relationship that means something to him." Dr. Laing, 38, does not claim to have originated this idea. It traces back to the brilliant American psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949), whose theories have been neglected partly because he wrote in obscure jargon. Sullivan blamed emotional problems on difficulties in "interpersonal relationships," then defined "a person" not as a person in the usual sense but as a social concept. Starting from that, Dr. Laing sees the schizophrenic...
...externally, from those around him. He is in a position of checkmate." Before schizophrenia can be better understood and its treatment improved, psychiatry itself must undergo a deep change, Dr. Laing believes. He insists that a mental hospital is no place to treat a schizophrenic because there the psychiatrist has to play his role according to doctor-patient rules...
When Gunman Dana Nash was tried in 1962 for killing a Chicago union official, the key witness against him was his nephew, William Triplett, who had helped him commit the murder. Nash knew that a prison psychiatrist had once diagnosed his nephew as "a true psychopath." To impeach Triplett's credibility, Nash asked the trial judge to order a psychiatric examination. The judge refused. After Nash received a sentence of 99 to 150 years, he appealed on the ground, among others, of this alleged error. By definition, he argued, a psychopath is a liar and "unworthy of belief...
When Bullitt confided his purpose to his friend Sigmund Freud, the Viennese psychiatrist instantly fell in with the idea. Indeed, he took charge: he wanted to set a hand to the chapter about Wilson. In the ensuing collaboration, the chapter became the book. Wilson had fascinated Freud since his discov ery that they were born in the same year-1856-and, more particularly, he blamed Wilson because his personal estate of $30,000 had dwindled away into nothing during the inflationary postwar period. Freud candidly confesses his bias in this book: "The figure of the American President, as it rose...