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...specialist in hypnosis as well as a professor at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Psychiatrist Spiegel tested the cliches by choosing a volunteer who was "a normal, healthy neurotic like anyone else." While NBC-TV filmed the experiment for possible use in a documentary, Dr. Spiegel easily and quickly put his subject into a deep hypnotic trance. Next he told the man that he had important information about a major Communist plot to take over the television networks and radio stations. Dr. Spiegel provided no other information; he implied, however, that the subject could provide...
...doubts about his theory. McGee, it was pointed out, was aligned with Dr. Spiegel in the mind of the subject. Could the subject have been made to tell his story to the FBI? The current experiment did not answer that question, but to Dr. C. Knight Aldrich, a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago School of Medicine, the Spiegel film was nonetheless persuasive. "I am not saying that testimony under hypnosis has no place in a court of law," he said, "but it must be viewed as not having superior validity. Courts should be highly skeptical of testimony given under...
...When one begins to feel schizophrenic, a simple shot in the brain might replace hours of psychotherapy and shock treatment. In fact, his theory is so good that the only disadvantage I can see is that he might be putting his son, Dr. Linus Pauling Jr., a prominent Honolulu psychiatrist, out of business...
...PSYCHIATRISTS SAY GOLD WATER IS PSYCHOLOGICALLY UNFIT TO BE PRESIDENT! That determinedly flamboyant headline dressed the cover of Fact magazine one month before the presidential election of 1964. The entire issue was an examination of the "unconscious of a conservative," based largely on answers to a questionnaire sent to the 12,356 psychiatrists listed by the American Medical Association. Of the 2,417 who replied, 657 said Barry Goldwater was fit for the presidency, 571 declined to take a position, and 1,189 called him unfit-the latter in no uncertain terms. Some of their opinions: "emotionally unstable," "immature," "cowardly...
...were provoked by his intense anxiety about his manhood." Goldwater testified that he had "never had any doubts about it." Calm and comfortable in the witness chair, he declared flatly that he had not had a nervous breakdown either. In fact, he said, "I have never talked to a psychiatrist in my life...