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Many Americans, particularly those with memories of World War II, retain a sense of the flag as a solace. Says Psychiatrist William D. Davidson: "When an American soldier dies, what is his family given in exchange for his life? A flag. This gives his death meaning...
...sleep is dream sleep. In ad dition to the long sleeper's measurably greater need to dream - that is, to mull over the problems of wakeful life-Psychiatrist Hartmann proposes another function of sleep. Since the long sleeper shows more symptoms of emotional problems than the short sleeper, who resolutely avoids his problems anyway, it seems that he may use his hours in bed to give his subconscious sleeping self more time to examine these problems and, if possible, to work them...
...common knowledge that alcohol, in moderation, has therapeutic effects-as a releaser of emotional tensions, for instance, and as a mild sedative. Drink also serves society through the simple but significant camaraderie of the cup. In a recent experiment, Dr. Ching-piao Chien, a senior psychiatrist at Boston State Hospital, tested this function of alcohol on geriatric patients. Chien staged his study in the hospital sunroom, which had been converted for the experiment into a pub. His subjects were 40 male inmates (average age 73) suffering from depression or mental deterioration stemming from senility...
...Psychiatrist Chien wisely refrains from overinterpreting the result of his experiment. Indeed, he allows for the possibility that because his subjects were predominantly Irish-with a legendary thirst for suds-the salubrious effect of the beer therapy might have been enhanced a certain amount. But he found that if old men, although defined as mentally ill, are given the chance to play a normal social role, they will eagerly respond, and symptoms of senility and mental illness are diminished...
...psychiatrist might say his sense of humor evolved out of necessity. Adopted at the age of two by Newspaper Tycoon Ira C. Copley, whose publishing empire included 16 newspapers in Illinois and California, Bill grew up feeling lonely and out of place. "My family believed that all artists are either Communists or homosexuals," he recalls. "Four years at Andover, four years at Yale, four years in the Army...