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...many of the alienated youths who join radical underground groups in Western democracies lack any coherent ideological or political goals. Violence is the attraction?the end, not the means. Notes Brian Jenkins, an associate director at Rand Corp.: "The act of terror itself is an ideology." Harvey Schlossberg, a psychiatrist who trains the New York City Police Department's anti-terrorist unit, contends that many urban terrorists are compensating for inadequate personalities. "If they cry and stamp their feet, no one pays attention. But by taking hostages, in a matter of minutes the whole world is watching. This helps overcome...
...young urban terrorist, in Europe at least, claims to speak for the working class. In fact his background is most often middle or upper middle class, and the common man is as frightened of his methods as is the millionaire. Franco Ferracuti, a forensic psychiatrist at Rome University, interviewed several members of Italy's notorious Red Brigade. He found that most of them came from well-to-do, churchgoing families and had attended universities, majoring in the social sciences. All had witnessed, and many had participated in, the Europe-wide May revolution of students in 1968; the Red Brigade terrorists...
...such well-meaning advice doesn't work, even the least pill-happy physician usually writes out prescriptions for chemical Band-aids; after all, time is limited. Supposing even that doesn't work, the student will be advised to talk to a UHS psychiatrist. He or she will not be exposed to the humiliation integral to many of the quack therapies (such as EST's day-long sessions with two rest periods, no cigarettes or alcohol, just a barrage of ideology that costs $300.) But the message, in the end, will most likely be bald in the extreme: "Bite the bullet...
...Their bones, eyes, ears, skin-even reflexes and blood pressure -may be those one expects in a 60-year-old." Complicating matters is the fact that physiological aging varies not only from person to person but within the individual as well. Eyesight may fail while hearing remains acute. Says Psychiatrist Robert N. Butler, director of the National Institute on Aging: "One may be at different 'ages' at one and the same time in terms of mental capacity, physical health, endurance, creativity and emotions...
...officer of the Brown University chapter of R.A.S.P. (Redheads Are Special People), I would like to respond to your article on Psychiatrist Michael Bar [Sept...