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...ready for a sudden "fight or flight." But try doing either one in today's traffic jams or boardrooms. "The fight-or-flight emergency response is inappropriate to today's social stresses," says Harvard Cardiologist Herbert Benson, an expert on the subject. It is also dangerous. Says Psychiatrist Peter Knapp of Boston University: "When you get a Wall Street broker using the responses a cave man used to fight the elements, you've got a problem...
While these ideas might be perfect for late-night bull sessions, they have no grounding in reality. But they are just a sampling of the brazen assertions offered in two new books, The Chemistry of Love by Michael Liebowitz, a psychiatrist at Columbia, and Science and Moral Priority, by Roger W. Sperry, a psychobiologist from Cal Tech. In fact, it seems that these two scientists, who have had much success in the labs, have a rather inflated idea of what science can do. Both men have been blinded by their own successes into thinking that they can begin to solve...
Robert Ragland, M.D., a psychiatrist from Florida, made his identity known to The Stanford Daily by sending the newspaper copies of his correspondences with University President Donald Kennedy about the issue. The University had previously refused to reveal the donor's name in order to protect his privacy...
...cause. This is the most startling and original conclusion of a new landmark study, The Natural History of Alcoholism: Causes, Patterns, and Paths to Recovery (Harvard University Press; $25), on the affliction that hits one American family in three. The author, Dr. George Vaillant, 48, a Harvard psychiatrist, is one of the most respected researchers in adult development. Vaillant tackles other key questions that specialists in the disorder have been debating for years: Can an alcoholic return to social drinking? Is there a genetic cause for the affliction? Why are some ethnic groups more likely to become alcoholics? How effective...
Other professionals agree with Vaillant's glum assessment. "We don't do anything adequately," admits Dr. Robert Millman, director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Service at Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in New York City. Explains Dr. Blume of the N.C.A., who is a psychiatrist: "Psychiatrists have been trained that alcoholism is a problem which comes from early-childhood experiences, but aren't taught how to treat alcoholics. They go after these 'underlying causes,' treatment doesn't work, the alcoholic gets worse and the psychiatrist decides that the disease is intractable...