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...psychiatrist who improperly commits an old person to a mental hospital is worse than a draft dodger who fakes a physical defect...
...those earning over $10,000, westerners and Jews. Curiously, blacks would turn the son over to the police by a bigger margin than whites-42% to 38%, v. 42% to 41%, Those who would not turn in the son said that they would send him to a doctor or psychiatrist, or help him break the habit themselves...
...going to approach you now," said Psychiatrist Augustus F. Kinzel to his subject, who stood eight feet away at the center of a bare room. "Tell me to stop when you think I'm too close." He moved forward a pace. "Here?" Another step. "Here?" The subject, an inmate of the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., and a man with a long history of violence, shook his head. But as Kinzel continued his advance, the prisoner's hands clenched into fists and he backed off, like someone gearing for attack. It was almost...
...this thesis. He estimates that some 85% of the country's prison population are not violence-prone. If this can be proved, these nonaggressive convicts could safely be paroled from custody-and from an environment bristling with guns and guards that provides a spur to violence. Now a psychiatrist at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Kinzel has applied to the New York State Department of Correction to retest his theory on prison inmates whose susceptibility to violence will not be known to him beforehand. By measuring their intolerance to physical intrusion, Kinzel is confident that...
...ambition to climb the hierarchy of some established institution. On the contrary, the institution may have been compromised in his eyes. He does not feel so strongly the compulsion to outdo Daddy or the Joneses; he may pay them the supreme insult of ignoring their way of life altogether. Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton speaks of a new kind of "Protean Man" who has been cut adrift from the traditions and expectations of the past. Without moorings, he moves from one activity or ideology to the next in the hope of ultimately finding himself. In a way, today's restless...