Word: psychiatrist
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...this reason the debate that engaged countless generations of philosophers--whether nature or nurture calls the shots--no longer interests most scientists. They are much too busy chronicling the myriad ways in which genes and the environment interact. "It's not a competition," says Dr. Stanley Greenspan, a psychiatrist at George Washington University. "It's a dance...
...tail to his kite." She never wavered in her devotion to him, however, even when he had an affair with a young Newsweek stringer in the early '60s. By that time, his behavior was becoming more erratic, the result of a manic-depressive disorder that was treated by a psychiatrist who "did more harm than good," she says, recommending existentialist philosophy in lieu of drugs. Finally, on the day he returned home after a stay in the hospital, Graham said he wanted to take a nap, went into a bathroom and shot himself to death...
...doubt in my mind" that William Tager, now in prison for the 1994 shooting death of an NBC technician, is the man who repeatedly kicked him while he was walking down Park Avenue in the fall of 1986. Rather was tipped off to Tager's identity by a psychiatrist who interviewed Tager after he was arrested for shooting Campbell Theron Montgomery. Montgomery was killed when he alerted police to Tager, who was attempting to enter the show's ground-floor studios with an assault rifle. Both attacks were apparently fueled by Tager's belief that the media was after...
Brown family attorney Natasha Roit charged that the judge had failed to consider the children's statements to a court-appointed psychiatrist; statements, she said, that would have shown that they had witnessed domestic violence in the Simpson home. Said Roit: "I believe the children are at substantial risk with Simpson. This is a man who committed domestic violence in the past and continues to deny...
Other people involved with the case agree with that assessment. Even the state's expert witness, psychiatrist Dr. Russ Voltin, who testified that on the basis of inconsistencies in her story he believed Kay was "malingering," has changed his position. He testified at a recent sentencing hearing that after further interviews with Kay he believes she suffers from post-traumatic-stress disorder, resulting from the years of abuse by her deceased husband. "I don't think this woman poses a threat," Dr. Voltin says. "[She] felt backed against the wall." It is too late to sway the court, however...