Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LIVING DOLL (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). A new situation comedy with a new situation: Julie Newmar plays a top-secret Government robot, and Robert Cummings is the psychiatrist assigned to watch over her control box. Premi...
...Traditionally, parents battle it out between themselves in contests often marked more by emotion than reason. When they reach no decision, they appeal to the courts, where rulings may be based more on custom than psychology. In any case, the child may be the chief casualty. Now, an eminent psychiatrist recommends a novel approach: custody by committee...
Group Wisdom. Under Kubie's plan, which he reports is being tried by a growing number of separated and divorced couples, the parents agree privately to share the child, then select an impartial committee composed of a pediatrician, a child psychiatrist, an educator and a lawyer or clergyman. The committee arbitrates any disagreements the parents could not work out themselves. The parents also appoint a separate "adult ally," another child specialist, with the job of winning the child's confidence and reporting to the committee on problems that the boy or girl might not confess to either mother...
Prerogatives Preserved. Psychiatrist Kubie is aware that his suggestion of custody by private committee appears to raise a legal question: If widely adopted, might it tend to usurp court prerogatives in custody matters? The answer, he feels, is probably no. And in a student note appended to Kubie's article, the Yale Journal agrees. It points out that courts, as the ultimate arbiters of family disputes, would always have the right to review committee decisions at the request of either parent. Moreover, suggests the note, overworked courts might be helping themselves by heeding the consensus of such private councils...
...best member of the cast, Harriet Rogers, makes a good Julia, and Frederick M. Kimball tries to be properly cryptic as the mysterious psychiatrist, Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly, though I found his mannerisms a bit tiring after a while. Dustin Hoffman might be acceptable as Peter Quilpe had not some idiot decided to dress him up and have him act like a teenage busboy at a summer camp. Even if Peter is little more than an eager lad beginning a career in the cinema, he has a lot more substance than Hoffman brings to the part. Paul Benedict, a sort...