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...past eight years, TIME'S Washington bureau would have been hard-pressed to operate without Edwin Goodpaster. As news editor and deputy bureau chief, Goodpaster was the executive officer, deploying the troops of the 23-man bureau. He also played copy editor, assignment maker, staff psychiatrist, and domestic-affairs counselor. When gas masks and helmets were needed for reporters covering the riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Goodpaster found them. Or Arctic underwear for reporters on their way to Greenland...
...disorder." Every year doctors treat some 4,000,000 to 8,000,000 Americans for it; about 250,000 of the cases require hospitalization. No one knows how many undergo shock therapy, which, like the illness, remains in some ways mysterious. Explains Dr. Lothar Kalinowsky, a New York City psychiatrist who was one of the pioneers of electroconvulsive therapy in the U.S.: "We must admit that we are very successfully treating conditions of an unknown cause with treatments of an equally unknown mode of action...
...knows why the treatment helps, but it usually does. Boston Psychiatrist Robert Arnot theorizes that "when an intense, hard-driving person overdrives himself, the nervous system just won't turn off; shock turns off the mind and stops the patient from thinking about whatever it is that he is preoccupied with." Other experts suggest that the shock somehow shakes up the brain so that "things fall back into their normal places." It is largely because of the lack of scientific understanding about its workings that many psychiatrists distrust the treatment...
...While no psychiatrist can comment intelligently on Eagleton's case without knowing him and without the full disclosure of his records, some say he might well fit a fairly common depression syndrome: the ambitious, energetic and successful person who at moments of achievement envisions even higher goals that seem depressingly out of reach. It is, oddly, an illness of the ablest. Says Washington Psychiatrist Zigmond Lebensohn of Eagleton: "The very fact that he reached out for help is healthy." While recurrence of depression cannot be ruled out, the fact that Eagleton has gone six years without treatment...
When Steinberg departs from religious motifs, his humor deals with the psychology, sociology and surrealism of modern life. As one of his show's features he portrays an "existential psychiatrist" whose therapeutic sallies are interrupted by his own compulsive shrieking at vermin only...