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After boasting about their newborn's first smile, many proud parents are deflated by the pediatrician's cool remark: "It's only gas." Not so, says Psychiatrist Robert N. Emde of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Having studied more than 300 beaming babies in the past nine years, Dr. Emde reports that infants have two quite different kinds of smiles, neither of which has anything to do with...
...charismic weakness." Often that weakness is drinking. "You're a rummy, but no more than most good writers are," Ernest Hemingway told Scott Fitzgerald, and Fitzgerald himself called alcohol the "writer's vice." Now, through a study of Fitzgerald as "an alcoholic par excellence," Washington University Psychiatrist Donald W. Goodwin has attempted to explain the remarkable statistics about the drinking habits of well-known American writers of the past century: a third to a half were alcoholic; of six Americans awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, four (Eugene O'Neill, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner and Hemingway) were...
Through the administration, police learned that Bond had been seeing a psychiatrist and, during the strike, had been told to discontinue his activities. "I really like the way the administration is playing up to Bond's dependability and that the psychiatrist said he was OK," one student said. "Everybody who knew him knew he was sick...
...scientists, some of whom are impressed by his pen-and-pencil therapy. Tested at a number of institutions, among them California's Patton State Hospital and the Santa Clara Mental Health Center, his treatment has produced what Psychologist George Melzer calls "astonishing results." Says Dr. John Langdell, a psychiatrist at San Francisco's Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute: "I'm a little skeptical about the claims he makes for graphotherapy, but I am by no means ready to reject them either...
Hiram Jaffe (Gould) walks dogs in Central Park by day and writes skin books by night. All the while, his wife Dolly (Paula Prentiss) pelts him with Freudianisms that she has picked up as a psychiatrist's secretary...