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...does not advocate that everyone be childless. It recommends a maximum of one child for couples who really want youngsters, and no babies at all before age 21. According to Washington Psychiatrist E. James Lieberman, a member of NON's executive committee, there are good psychological reasons for practicing that restraint. "Our society thrusts people into parenthood prematurely," he says. "The best preventive psychiatry is becoming a parent at the proper time and for the right reasons...
Died. Dr. Walter J. Freeman, 76, psychiatrist and neurologist who pioneered the use of prefrontal and trans-orbital lobotomies as a treatment for severe mental illness; of cancer; in San Francisco. In 1936 Freeman performed the first lobotomy in the U.S. by severing the nerves from the frontal lobes of a patient's brain. An ardent and vocal champion of the controversial procedure, he once supervised or performed 238 operations over a two-week period. Because lobotomies are irreversible and leave some patients in a vegetable-like condition, the treatment was gradually abandoned during...
...Witch doctors and psychiatrists are really one behind their exterior mask and pipe," says Psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey of the National Institute of Mental Health. Most of his colleagues would not go that far, but some believe that witch doctors can help their emotionally troubled patients. That is why the institute is now providing scholarships for Navajo Indians studying "curing ceremonials" under the tutelage of tribal medicine men on the federal reservation at Rough Rock, Ariz...
...program was conceived by the Indians and encouraged by Psychiatrist Robert Bergman of the Indian Health Service. Without it the Navajo medicine man might die out, because potential students need to work at paying jobs and have no time for training. Describing the program at a recent meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Bergman explained that the ceremonials are based on a belief that disease is "caused by disharmony with the universe, including the universe of other men." To restore harmony, a medicine man or "singer" conducts a traditional "chantway," leading the ailing victim, his relatives and friends...
...wrestling with him on the bed to pay it much mind. She does become concerned, however, when she hears loud Latin music blasting from behind his locked door and two distinctly different voices speaking Spanish when Joel claims he is alone. Norah sends Joel to a woman psychiatrist (Lovelady Powell), but she isn't much help, being apparently as puzzled about him as the rest of us. "I never understood why you went to live in the East Village when you came back from Tangier," she says, a remark which slightly advances the plot, but not the analysis...