Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychiatrist and a philosophy professor renewed the debate on consciousness-expanding drugs last night. At the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, Dr. Gerald L. Klerman and Huston Smith, professor of philosophy at M.I.T., discussed whether drugs such as psilocybin can benefit mankind, and found themselves in sharp disagreement...
Next was Dr. Martin Towler, a University of Texas neurologist and psychiatrist who had spent hours examining Ruby for Judge Joe Brown in order to offer a neutral source of information to the court. Towler had made electroencephalographic examinations (brainwave readings) of Ruby, told the jury that his graphs showed "paroxysmal discharges" from parts of Ruby's brain-indicating that "the subject is suffering from a seizure disorder." But in crossexamination, District Attorney Wade asked Towler if he meant to imply to the jury that Ruby had been out of his mind when he shot Oswald. Replied Towler...
Then Belli brought in his star doctor, Manfred Guttmacher, 65, of Baltimore, a psychiatrist for 32 years and a veteran witness in court cases. Belli immediately asked him the key question: Was Ruby sane when he killed Oswald? Guttmacher did not hesitate in his answer: "I don't think he was capable of distinguishing right from wrong or realizing the consequences of his act at the time of the shooting...
...disagreed with the contention of Dr. Graham R. Biaine, psychiatrist to the University Health Services, that undergraduates are not emotionally equipped to deal with sexual intercourse. Miss Greene suspected that the happy cases, which never came before Biaine, far exceed the unhappy ones. "I do not think sex necessarily leads to Dr. Biaine's coach...
...pratfall. It makes a shambles of psychiatry and brings the art of film close to idiocy. Stuart Whitman is hired to bluff his way into a mental hospital where Psychotic Killer Roddy McDowall may or may not reveal the location of $1,000,000 in stolen cash. But malevolent Psychiatrist Lauren Bacall also craves money, to continue her research. When she hits on Whitman's game, she prescribes electroshock therapy, then injects a concoction into his jugular vein to induce catatonia...