Word: psychiatrists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Half of all Californians were born out of state, usually in places where they felt confined by traditions and roots. Says Stanford Psychiatrist Donald Lunde: "Many who come west might have been in trouble at home, lost their businesses or lost their families. They come here for a new start -or a last chance." San Francisco Examiner Editor Reg Murphy puts it: "This is every misfit's favorite city...
...third are very psychologically distressed people. The other two-thirds are relatively average people, but in a period of depression, gloom, being at loose ends." Such people are vulnerable to well-planned recruitment techniques. These usually involve displays of effusive affection and understanding, or "love bombing," as one psychiatrist puts it. Once recruits start going to meetings, they are frequently subjected to various drills and disciplines that weary them both physically and emotionally, producing a sort of trance...
With Jones' own behavior growing more paranoid and the sudden presence of the Congressman and the press, some experts believe there was almost a psychological inevitability to the disaster. "Following that type of fragmentation, there was only one thing left," says Dr. Stanley Cath, a Boston psychiatrist. "They could return to the world of reality, but they would have had to face their own inadequacies, the world they had already discarded, the families they had already discarded. So for them, death was preferable because death had already been proclaimed rebirth...
Hermann has other problems, as he explains to a weighty fellow whom he takes to be a psychiatrist but who is in fact an insurance agent. He is troubled by an odd sort of sexual dislocation: when he is making love to his wife (a porky and bubbleheaded blonde played delightfully by Andréa Ferréol), he also seems to be sitting in a chair and watching the heavings. Worse, as the illness progresses, the chair he watches, from recedes farther and farther from the action...
...doll with a noose around its neck, hanging in front of a cracked mirror. Three days later, Arthur was in control, questioning the attorney closely about what had happened and how the other personalities could be protected. Said Schweickart: "The stress of jail and confinement was too much." Psychiatrist Wilbur thinks the prognosis for Milligan is doubtful. So does Milligan. His Tommy personality turned out this poem: / am sorry I took your time/ I am the poem that doesn 't rhyme/ So just turn back the page/ I'll waste away/ I'll waste away...