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Robert Coles, D.H.L., psychiatrist...
Died. Dr. Felix Marti-Ibanez, 60, psychiatrist and medical-journal publisher; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A prominent public-health official in Spain during the '30s, Marti-Ibanez fled the country after the Civil War and immigrated to the U.S. In 1950 he founded M.D. Publications, Inc., parent company for a variety of medical publications (Antibiotics and Chemotherapy, Antibiotic Medicine...
Dying people are surrounded by a "conspiracy of silence, denial and dissimulation" that dehumanizes them and increases instead of easing their psychological suffering. That is the conclusion of Harvard University Psychiatrist Avery Weisman, one of the experts in the rapidly growing science of thanatology-the study of death. In an effort to break that conspiracy, Weisman has written a perceptive book, On Dying and Denying (Behavioral Publications; $9.95), which he hopes will help human beings to face death "with clarity, equanimity and acceptance...
...Unwanted pregnancy" is a widely accepted term among both laymen and behavioral scientists. It is also widely misunderstood, according to Cornell University Psychiatrist Lawrence Downs and Psychologist David Clayson. In a paper presented to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Downs and Clayson offer convincing evidence that among women who have abortions, pregnancy is initially "more wanted than unwanted." Far from being accidental, it represents a subconscious effort to cope with extreme emotional stress...
Drug addiction would seem to have little in common with smallpox. But according to Swedish Psychiatrist Nils Bejerot, the two scourges are remarkably similar. Though one is spread by example and one by a virus, both, he says, are contagious, epidemic diseases that can best be contained by quarantining their victims. To curb the spread of heroin and other hard-drug abuse, Bejerot proposes, the U.S. should establish compulsory, drug-free rehabilitation "villages" in secluded areas to keep addicts from infecting healthy nonusers...