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Lurching from line to line, Steiger frequently ad-libbed his way through entire scenes-including most of a boozy encounter with Sidney Poitier in the sheriff's house. When the occasion calls for it, Steiger can stick to a script. In The Mark he played a psychiatrist and did not change a line-but improvised in other ways. Drawing on his five years of treatment in New York, he remembered two characteristics of his own analyst: "He had too many patients, and he was always exhausted." Steiger made the psychiatrist a chainsmoking, unshaven, love-haunted man -none of which...
...have they specified the necessary degree of likelihood for a person to commit a harm. In other words, it doesn't matter whether a person might commit a harm, is likely to commit a harm, or is more than likely to commit a harm. In practice, all a psychiatrist must say is that a person is "likely to be dangerous to himself or to others" to effect his incarceration...
...insanity," thousands of accused criminals have spent decades imprisoned in institutions that authorities benignly call "hospitals for the criminally insane." In the vast majority of cases, these people have been convicted of no crime. The medical and legal problems that they present have been reversed and confused, since a psychiatrist's statement that there is mental illness is enough to cause incarceration in these institutions. But the euphemism of "hospital" rarely corresponds to the reality...
Gerald Bolton, 35, has been in and out of insane asylums for 19 years. His hang-up is automobiles, and it has brought him a lot of trouble. In fact, in the gentle word of a psychiatrist, he "eloped" from one Washington, D.C., hospital at least three times to be with cars - cars that each time he stole and drove all over the country. In 1965, he was picked up for stealing yet another car. Gerald entered an insanity defense and was acquitted. Immediately after ward he was sent to a hospital for the in sane - as is anyone...
Glimp said that he also has spoken with Montgomery and Howard as early as last spring. "The case Afro makes for having a Negro psychiatrist is a good one," Glimp said, "but it has to be handled in a ticklish way. Some Negroes may react negatively to the idea of having someone just for them...