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Died. Dr. Manfred S. Guttmacher, 68, Baltimore psychiatrist and ranking U.S. expert on criminal insanity, who examined some 5,000 defendants over 36 years, was a leading opponent of the controversial M'Naghten rule (which holds a defendant legally insane only if unable to tell right from wrong), and a star defense witness in the 1964 Jack Ruby trial, testifying that even under M'Naghten, Ruby was insane when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald; of leukemia; in Baltimore...
...works for the U.S. Post Office in Portsmouth. In credulous themselves, and greatly disturbed by the experience, they preferred for a long time not to talk about it. But one friend who heard about it suggested that the Hills needed psychiatric care. They applied for treatment to Boston Psychiatrist Benjamin Simon, who found them both suffering from "crippling anxiety"; to relieve it, he hypnotized them, and the story came out, along with the Hills's own sketches of what they had seen (see cuts...
According to a Swedish psychiatrist, the novel (491) on which the film is based is "probably the best textbook on youth psychiatry ever to have appeared." U.S. and European critics have praised the film. When 491 reached New York in 1964, however, U.S. customs men barred it as an "immoral" import. In upholding the ban, U.S. District Judge Henry N. Graven ruled that 491 met all the Supreme Court tests of obscenity. "To the average person applying contemporary community (national) standards," held Graven, the film's "dominant theme as a whole appeals to the prurient interest." In addition...
...adults think they are accomplishing so much by telling us how crazy we are when they are the ones who are always at the psychiatrist's office having their own schizophrenic personalities analyzed...
...race." More students today are also bothered by shifting sexual attitudes. If they are not inclined to take advantage of the new permissiveness, they may worry that they are latent homosexuals; if they do take advantage, they often discover that "intimacy without emotion," as U.C.L.A. Consultant Psychiatrist Robert Berns explains it, produces guilt rather than pleasure or fulfillment...