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...still far from clear how hereditary and environmental factors combine to create an alcoholic. In the early 1980s, Cloninger joined a team of Swedish investigators led by Michael Bohman, a psychiatrist at the University of Umea, to study an even larger group of adoptees. Since Sweden's extensive welfare system keeps thorough records on each citizen, Bohman was able to compile detailed sketches of 1,775 adopted men and women, more than a third of whom had an alcoholic biological parent. As Cloninger studied the health, insurance, work and police records of his subjects, two distinct categories seemed to emerge...
...women today earn substantial incomes and no longer feel compelled to marry a "good provider." In the era of Joan Collins and Linda Evans, perceptions have changed. "The age at which we look at women as still being attractive and sexy has risen," says Carole Lieberman, a Los Angeles psychiatrist...
According to city workers, Brown was "dirty and incoherent." She screamed. She cursed. She tore up paper money and burned it. She defecated in her clothes. When a psychiatrist offered her a bag lunch, she threw it back. "Billie Boggs," she called herself, after a local television personality. She cooed over babies and hurled abuse at black men. Sometimes she sang. A favorite: How Much Is That Doggie in the Window...
...knows that rationing health resources on the basis of age is an "austere thesis," but he takes to the intellectual battlements willingly. Thinking through the fundamental moral and practical problems of life is the unique concern of the Hastings Center, which he co-founded with Psychiatrist Willard Gaylin in 1969. Reared in a comfortable Roman Catholic family in Washington, Callahan earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard in 1965. By then he was a leader in the effort to liberalize Catholic thought as an editor of the Catholic weekly Commonweal. But about 1968 "I started fading from Catholicism," he says...
Margaret Ford (Lindsay Crouse) is unaware that she lives in a chancy universe. A trimly repressed psychiatrist, she must believe that whatever problems come her way are amenable to rational solutions. So when one of her patients tells her that the gamblers to whom he owes an impossible sum of money are threatening his life, she marches straight to the House of Games, determined to talk compassionate sense to the management...