Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short dozen years since drug treatment of some mental illnesses was shown to be effective, medical psychiatry (as distinct from the talk-it-out schools) has taken giant strides. Now the pace is so fast that last week Psychiatrist Theodore R. Robie had the temerity to tell a group of critical professional colleagues of a promising treatment that he has been investigating for only five weeks...
...sentimental, fake, and propagandistic. To substantiate such charges he comes up with such strenuous exertions as "the closed culture of Harlem is really a set of defenses," or"... children are an easy mark for sentimental demonstrations." It is good, finally, to have Harlem approximated; and as a child psychiatrist who has worked with Negro and white children in the South's desegregated school's and in northern ghettoes, I had heretofore overlooked the susceptibility of those children to "sentimental demonstrations." Mr. Smock tells us exactly the stuff of those demonstrations: "childish naivete is set against hopeless circumstances for maximum pathos...
...sight of violence, stealing, and murder, thereby proving the picture a failure. Laughter can signify nervous comprehension, too; the truth, the pain and anguish, the cruelty of life brought to focus, can be too much for the audience--and apparently the critic, also. Robert Coles, M.D. Research Psychiatrist...
...lemonade stand labeled "Psychiatric Care," the same little girl listens to a little blonde girl's troubles: "My problem is I'm afraid of kindergarten. 1 don't even know why! I try to reason it out, but I can't." Responds the junior psychiatrist: "You're no different from anybody else. Five cents, please...
...mother. Unaccustomed to strong paternal authority, argued Golden, these ministers find their problems accentuated when they take over a parish, often to be overprotected by congregations that look up to them as Christ figures. Usually the symptoms of emotional distress are evident long before neurotic clerics are ordained, suggested Psychiatrist Robert J. McAllister, a consultant to Catholic University. Reporting on 100 hospitalized Catholic priests at the Seton Institute, he pointed out that 77 had serious emotional problems as seminarians; 32 ultimately became alcoholics. McAllister' added that a conflict between their desire for perfection and their basic needs and desires...