Word: psychiatrists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Girard staff includes a psychiatrist and two psychologists, but problem kids are rare. Every boy learns to dance and to read music. And women teachers take them to restaurants to learn all about dining out, French menus and conversation with girls. Hummers wear no special uniform; each boy's free G.I. (Girard Issue) is two new tailor-made suits a year...
Mind v. Brain. Schizophrenia (split personality) is probably the commonest form of insanity. Where does it start, in the mind or in the brain? Most psychiatrists think schizophrenia is faulty functioning of the mind. On the basis of postmortem studies of ten patients with schizophrenia, Philadelphia's Nathaniel W. Winkelman came to the contrary conclusion that the disease should be considered organic: there are, he reported, changes in the brain that can be seen under the microscope. He found, for instance, a decrease in ganglion cells, and an unusual amount of fat in the cells. Most of his subjects...
...Boston psychiatrist, Moore wrote 50,000 sonnets in 18 years...
Medicine's frantic search for a single diagnosis of every case, said Psychiatrist Karl Menninger, turns bacteria into demons and medicine into a demoniac science. Physicians, he said, should think of disease "in terms of the total economics of the personality...
Prentice-Hall got out first with something called Sex Habits of American Men ($3). It is a serious symposium edited by PM Columnist Albert Deutsch; most of the 13 contributors are friendly to Kinsey. But Yale Psychiatrist Robert P. Knight offers a sharp dissent to Kinsey's assumption that prevalence and normality are the same thing. The common cold, says Dr. Knight, has about the same incidence as homosexuality in Kinsey's findings (that 37% of all U.S. males have some homosexual experience). But the prevalence of colds, says Dr. Knight, does not make them "normal...