Word: psychiatrists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...likes her, more than seems proper for a married man to like a mermaid. She likes him, too. She bites a girl who is flirting with him, and causes his jealous wife to huff back to Boston. In the long run the lovers have to part and a psychiatrist takes over with a full explanation. Men around 50, he points out simply, are liable to start seeing things...
...director-general is Psychiatrist Brock Chisholm, wartime head of the Canadian Army's medical service. A methodical administrator who gets angry if an assistant is half a minute late for an appointment, he will stay in Geneva to get WHO's machinery moving. Said he as the assembly closed: "Our delegates are too damned cooperative - at least for the press. But some day the press will admit the dramatic news values of this international cooperation...
Therefore, writes Father White, material that the psychiatrist considers valuable may be rejected by the priest as self-infatuated garbage. "What a penitent is expected to confess is very clearly denned and restricted to the sins committed since his baptism or his previous confession. No such limitation can bind the analyst . . . The patient's 'good deeds' will interest . . . [the analyst] no less than his 'bad' ones . . . while dreams, free associations, spontaneous reactions and other manifestations of the unconscious will interest him still more...
When it comes to changing men's lives, Father White suggests that psychiatry may find itself looking to religion. He quotes famed Swiss Psychiatrist C. G. Jung: "During the past 30 years, people from all the civilized countries of the earth have consulted me. I have treated many hundreds of patients, the larger number being Protestants, a small number Jews, and not more than five or six believing Catholics. Among all my patients in the second half of life . . . there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding, a religious outlook...
...this morning depression something to be depressed about? In a few cases, thinks Manhattan Psychiatrist Jan Ehrenwald, it may be a sign of serious physical disease or the first symptom of melancholia...