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...psychiatrist whips the zoologist Governor of Washington...
...unusual campaign, pitting two candidates trained in science against each other. Ray, 66, was a professor of zoology before joining the Atomic Energy Commission, which she headed in 1973-74; McDermott, 43, is a psychiatrist who continued treating patients to supplement his $9,600-a-year legislative salary until after he began his run for Governor in April. From the start, Ray was the issue...
McDermott, a specialist trained in both adult and child psychiatry, entered politics in 1970 after leaving the Navy, where he had been chief psychiatrist at the Long Beach Naval Station in California. He won election to the Washington house of representatives in 1970 and to the state senate in 1974. During the gubernatorial primary campaign, he presented himself, in contrast to Ray, as moderate in both thought and personality. Said he: "I'm a thoughtful listener before I leap. I'm a problem solver at heart. That's what a psychiatrist is by profession. So if someone...
...exactly a thigh-slapper, but not terrible for a psychiatrist joke either. The genre may be about to expand, however. With the victory of Psychiatrist James A. McDermott over Dixy Lee Ray in the Washington State Democratic primary last week, the country trembles on the brink of having its first psychiatrist Governor. Dr. McDermott has offered himself as a "Governor who listens," and when a psychiatrist says a thing like that it is not mere political cant. But are the people prepared, emotionally, for his succession? Already, questions are beginning to haunt the air like irrational fears: Will the Governor...
...subsequent stay in a mental hospital. School, the swimming team, girls-he would like to return to them all with a full heart. But he can only mime the old moves. His mind is clogged by guilts he cannot express to his family or, at first, to the psychiatrist (Judd Hirsch)to whom he reluctantly reports...