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Tuning Out. Academic experts are sharply divided on both the merits and authenticity of the series. Anthropologist Margaret Mead finds that the Louds share both the problems and the rewards of many other American families. Boston Psychiatrist Norman Paul sees something more disturbing. "It is not just the Louds being depicted," he maintains. "The series shows how people tune out the guts of their lives. That's going on today in epidemic form...
...teacher and the school psychologist talked his parents into administering drugs to control the boy's mischievous and belligerent behavior. The amphetamines, however, only made Kent depressed. Frequently he complained of feeling persecuted by other children and cried himself to sleep. His parents took him to a psychiatrist, who concluded that all the boy needed was more activity to use up his frenetic energy...
That might end the more flagrant abuses. Even so, some experts like Child Psychiatrist Mark Stewart of the University of Iowa have lost their early enthusiasm for using drugs to control unruly children. To Stewart, the real danger is not side effects but that "by the time a child on drugs reaches puberty, he does not know what his undrugged personality is and, even worse, his family does not know how to accept...
Zombie. Another problem is what Manhattan Psychoanalyst Chaim Shatan calls the emotional anesthesia of captivity, a kind of psychological numbing that deadens feeling. Explains Los Angeles Psychiatrist Helen Tausend: "Many prisoners learn to cope with their situation by setting up low-key reactions in themselves-a kind of little death to save themselves from a bigger death." Back in the outside world, they often display a "zombie reaction"-apathy, withdrawal, lack of spontaneity and suppression of individuality. The symptoms often disappear quickly, but Shatan estimates that they can easily last three years. To a certain extent, he says, "You never...
Recovery is a difficult process. One reason: culture shock. First, explains Stenger, "The P.O.W. has become partly acclimated to Vietnamese culture, which is much more inner, self-oriented and passive than ours." Then comes the confusion of return to a changed world. As Psychiatrist Tausend expresses it, a returning prisoner is "like a man coming out of a dark room." By way of illustration, Iris Powers, chairman of a P.O.W.-M.I.A. committee, recounts the experience of Army Sergeant John Sexton. Released by the Viet Cong in 1971, Sexton had never heard of Women's Lib, miniskirts or unisex. "When...