Word: psychiatrists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sullen twelve-year-old girl hunches over in a chair, surrounded by her father, mother, sister, brother and a child psychiatrist. Her problem: severe asthma that will not respond to medical attention. After listening to the parents discuss the asthma, the psychiatrist suddenly switches attention to the sister's ample figure. She is clearly overweight. Isn't that a family problem too? As the family starts talking about obesity, the asthmatic girl sits up in her chair...
According to the psychiatrist, Dr. Ronald Liebman, Chief of Psychiatry at Philadelphia's Children's Hospital, that shift in the discussion helped bring the asthma under control. "The patient's overprotective parents," he says, "were focusing so much concern on her that she was responding with ever more severe symptoms." The girl understood that her parents' concern was no longer focused on her alone but on two family problems. After two months of complicated family therapy, the girl's asthma symptoms subsided. The trips to hospital emergency rooms ended, and she missed no more school...
Horrible Fantasies. Psychiatrist Norman Paul of Cambridge, Mass., reports some success in using family therapy to control epilepsy. Working with Dr. Robert Feldman, head of neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, he triggers seizures in epileptics and later shows a video tape of the attack to the entire family. The results so far: of twelve patients treated over the past three years, four have improved dramatically. One woman, 40, went from four seizures a day to one every eight months. Says Paul: "Epileptics have horrible fantasies about what they do. When they see the tapes, they can come...
...OONLY A PSYCHIATRIST can help poor Schoenberg now...He would do better to shovel snow instead of scribbling on music paper." So wrote Richard Strauss in a letter to Alma Mahler, voicing an opinion that is shared by most listeners today...
...they form their opinions by simply talking with the defendant. "What you would see," explains Dr. James Richmond, who has examined Squeaky Fromme, "is a doctor having a conversation with a patient." If the concern is whether the defendant is mentally able to stand trial and defend himself, the psychiatrist concentrates on such matters as the defendant's comprehension of the charges, his ability to follow what his attorney says, and his reaction to authority figures (some defendants go blank when faced with a judge). It is harder-and takes longer-to form an opinion about a defendant...