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...acts in response to the environment." Goodwin also points out gently that brain research has not yet produced any new treatments for mental disease. In fact, the only early result expected from the research is agreement of existing antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs to eliminate side effects. Ross Baldessarini, a psychiatrist and biochemist at the Mailman Research Center, warns that chemical cures can easily be oversold, like psychoanalysis and community psychiatry. Says he: "We are not going to find the causes and cures of mental illness in the foreseeable future...
...that there is a generalized American antipathy toward children. Says he: "With the exception of the Japanese, American parents spend more money on books on child rearing, more time at lectures about children than any parents in the world-and it's been growing." Robert Coles, a child psychiatrist best known for his five-volume Children of Crisis, thinks that, if anything, children are unwholesomely overvalued by many parents: "They are the only thing the parents believe in. They don't believe in God, or in any kind of transcendence, and so they believe in their children. They...
...Psychiatrist Immanuel Velikovsky, continue to have a cultlike following. In his original 1950 book, Worlds in Collision, and its popular successors, Velikovsky argued that catastrophe is the central agent in evolution. Says Warshofsky, himself a Velikovsky buff: "Catastrophe is an essential force in nature, not aberrational, but inevitable...
...what Isaac Asimov enjoys even more than comfort is that festival of contradictions known as Isaac Asimov. The man who talks like a randy bachelor is, in fact, the proud father of a son and a daughter, both in their 20s, and the husband of Psychiatrist Janet Jeppson (his first marriage ended in divorce in 1973). The robust and prodigious eater is the survivor of a 1977 heart attack as well as a thyroid cancer operation. The inveterate partygoer and dazzling conversationalist never drinks anything stronger than ginger ale. The carefree author cannot shake a persistent fear−certainly...
Slaughter contends that the anticult network in which she was so active is itself a kind of "cult" and that Patrick's technique is psychologically "destructive." She said that it "scarred me," stirred up resentment and violent dreams, and that an anticult psychiatrist told her she came close to a psychotic break during her deprogramming. She freely admits that Moonies use high-pressure indoctrination methods, but she compares them to Zen-like spiritual disciplines. She also denies Patrick's theory that converts are "brainwashed...