Word: psychiatrist
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...fistfight on the floor of the state senate. "Why don't you go back where they steal elections?" snapped Robert Jubelirer, the Republican leader, to Vincent Fumo, a Democratic committee chairman, whose reaction to the comment was so violent a colleague was forced to hold him back. "Get a psychiatrist," the Republican taunted...
...caught up in the moment. Lorena Bobbitt convinced a Virginia jury that being physically and sexually abused by her husband, forced to have sex when she didn't want to and failing to "have orgasm," drove her to cut off his penis. She only has to see a psychiatrist...
...paper quoted Columbia University Medical School psychiatrist James Ryan, a student at the Medical School in 1954, who said he and a friend volunteered for the test because they thought it was an easy way to make money...
Bozanich dismissed the defense team's psychiatrists, child-abuse therapists and forensics experts as "spin doctors." But the prosecution's decision not to hire its own experts leaves all the defense's witnesses virtually undisputed. Most persuasive was Dr. William Vicary, a psychiatrist who specializes in sex offenders and has evaluated 750 accused murderers. After spending 88 hours with Erik, Vicary concluded that Erik had been the victim of sexual abuse. Asked why Erik had not spoken of the abuse until almost a year after the shootings, Vicary answered, "It's very common for people who have been molested...
Common to all of these is the concern about aloneness, the dread of abandonment, the fear of a meaningless existence. Sometimes it is associated with anger at the perceived devaluation and rejection (the famous psychiatrist Karl Menninger said two people are often killed with each suicide); sometimes with feelings of guilt, inadequacy or fear of criticism that are so great that one punishes oneself rather than being punished by others...