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When a man loses his job, he is also severed from much of his community. "Forty hours of interaction with his cronies is cut out from under him," says Psychiatrist Stephen Landau of the University of Michigan. Having studied the increasing numbers of unemployed who are being treated at the university's emergency psychiatric clinic, Landau says that they frequently show signs of apathy, lethargy, despair and even suicidal depression. The mere threat of losing a job, he reports, can lead to "anticipatory symptoms," including heavy drinking. The child clinic is also getting "a lot of cases where...
...psychological strain is hardest on middleaged, upper-middle-income executives, who felt wedded to their companies and drew strong creative satisfactions from their jobs. Corporate managers find it even harder to adjust to unemployment than do entrepreneurs. Says Ari Kiev, a Manhattan psychiatrist: "Managers are probably more dependent persons who often tie up their whole lives with the corporation. When unemployed, they feel abandoned and have nothing to fall back upon. But entrepreneurs, however devastated by unemployment, are more flexible, more self-reliant." One of his patients, an unemployed entrepreneur, went out and found a job as a cab driver...
...psychiatrist from the University Health Services said last night at a student forum in the University Lutheran Church that depression and suicide at Harvard are often caused by a "distorted sense of importance and lack of communal experience...
...sitting more peacefully at my desk, and thinking over what happened, I am amazed at the amount of condescension and offensiveness he managed to pack into such a small amount of time...I'm sure, quite innocently. I still can't get over the amount of pretense in most psychiatrists. If there is a psychiatrist reading this who doesn't giggle up his sleeve daily about his power to look down and manipulate, I'd like to speak...
...ethnic pride: "Jewish is beautiful. Jews in America are now well integrated into society, but a sense of self is considerably stronger." There is, however, some concern about a heightened sense of "double identity." Speaking not only of Jewish Americans but of Italian Americans and other ethnic groups, Chicago Psychiatrist Robert Gronner declares that "it is always difficult to have a double identity...