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Rite of Passage. Psychiatrist Salvador Minuchin at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center finds that anoretics usually come from families that have conflicts but are "enmeshed" in togetherness. Minuchin's treatment is a mix of showmanship, ritual and behavioral techniques. Step one, oddly enough, is bringing the family together for lunch. The purpose is to replay a typical meal at home to see what happens. Like a director in a play, Minuchin may call the scene to a halt at the climax, perhaps just as the father is angrily and unsuccessfully trying to force his daughter to eat something. Minuchin...
...next day Olson seemed to get better, but on Tuesday morning he returned from work at 10 o'clock to tell his stunned wife that he had been advised to see a New York City psychiatrist-his colleagues feared he might have become a menace to her. Mrs. Olson accompanied her husband to the airport. She never saw him again...
University of Southern California Psychiatrist Edward Stainbrook attributes some of today's violence to the difference between this generation of black youths and their fathers. "The last black generation felt tremendously hostile too," he said, "but then there were parental restraints. Now biding your time is no longer enough. Angry defiance is acceptable...
...Adults are confused and at a loss," says Psychiatrist Bernard Yudowitz. "They don't know what standards to set for their children or themselves. The bells that used to ring in your head to say no aren't ringing any more...
...case involves John Ehrlichman and three White House plumbers who are appealing their conviction for the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. During the trial, the judge refused to allow national security to be used as a defense; but in the appeal argued last week, Ehrlichman et al. renewed their claim that Ellsberg was regarded as a threat to national security, since the White House did not know whether he had stolen other secrets besides the Pentagon papers. The Justice Department, urging that the convictions be upheld, contends that the break-in was plainly illegal...