Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Psychiatrist is Teacher...
...increase, Farnsworth said, is also that preventive psychiatry is becoming accepted as an integral part of college education. The college psychiatrist is simply a "teacher whose special duty it is to aid in the emotional aspects of maturation," he explained...
...argument that children suffer most by a divorce no longer seems to be a deterrent; many psychiatrists believe that they can adjust nicely to an orderly divorce. "Divorce is not the costliest experience possible to a child," says Child Psychiatrist J. Louise Despert. "Unhappy marriage without divorce can be far more destructive." The gradual weakening of religious strictures against divorce has also tended to make it more acceptable; all but the most fundamental U.S. Protestants now accept civil divorce-and the "new moralists" go further. In destructive family situations, says the Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Fletcher, professor of Christian social...
...that are undergoing psychotherapy on the campus, a letter from the examining psychiatrist should be on file with the local board. These letters anticipate a 1-Y classification for psychological problems. This letter will help the physician in a pre-induction physical to make a decision based on all the facts in the individual's case. This letter does not constitute an automatic classification, but will assist the examining physician to make a decision as to whether a man should be classified 1-A or 1-Y. An unsubstantiated report of psychological disturbance is not cause for deferment...
...Jennelle Moorhead, national president of the P.T.A., called the idea "outrageous." Iowa Governor Harold E. Hughes, who freely admits to an alcoholic past, said he was "1,000% against the idea. Children should be taught the dangers of alcohol but not how to use it," he said. New York Psychiatrist Abraham Perlstein, who has studied the problem of drinking by juveniles, offered another perspective. Teaching children how to drink, he argued, would neither increase nor decrease alcoholism; it would merely prove ineffective. In Perlstein's view, emotional disturbance, not alcohol itself, is what creates alcoholics...