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...account of the typical hijacker's personality and a leading psychiatrist's view on how to deal with it, see BEHAVIOR...
...That poor Houston ticket clerk never had a chance," Dallas Psychiatrist David Hubbard said last week. "He defied the first rule in dealing with a paranoiac-never crowd him or move at him suddenly-and got an instant, deadly education...
Hubbard was talking about Airline Agent Stanley Hubbard,* who was killed last week attempting to stop four armed skyjackers from boarding an Eastern Airlines jet (see THE NATION). If airline employees and passengers -and Government agencies, too-are properly educated about skyjackers. Psychiatrist Hubbard believes, tragedies like the one in Houston can be avoided. Skyjackers, says Hubbard, are not normal men who can be dealt with as if they were ordinary criminals; in most cases they are paranoid, suicidal schizophrenics to whom the threat of death is not a deterrent but a stimulus to crime. Thus Hubbard believes that...
Women's Underclothes. Hubbard speaks with some authority. He is the only U.S. psychiatrist who has studied the skyjacking phenomenon. Supported by a $200,000 grant from a private Dallas foundation, Hubbard in the past 3½ years has taped hundreds of hours of interviews with 50 imprisoned skyjackers, worked with airline crews to develop techniques for handling piracy, and outlined his ideas in a 1971 book called The Skyjacker: His Flights of Fantasy (Macmillan; $5.95). Hubbard's go-easy approach is anathema to get-tough FBI officials and many pilots. But there is some evidence that...
Among the truths that keep getting buried under the icing of cliché is one about frustration and how it leads to violence. In a bestselling study, Love and Will (1969) Psychiatrist Rollo May began his "search for the sources of violence." That phrase is now the subtitle of his new book Power and Innocence (Norton; $7.95). Both works are closely related; an understanding of one is a help in reading the other...