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...This seems to be the age when a man might consult a psychiatrist not because his life is a mess, but because he can find only himself to blame...
...case history but by a sort of cosmic hypochondria, a feeling of universal futility. This trend seems to be reflected in clinical experience. The old compulsion neuroses and guilt feelings, many psychologists report, are being replaced by diffuse anxiety neuroses and a vague sense of meaninglessness. According to Chicago Psychiatrist Dr. Marvin Ziporyn, the new fashion in popular psychology "reflects a greater interest in social interrelationships-it's more outward in its direction. All the introspective talk of castration anxiety, latent homosexuality or oral emphasis has been replaced by sibling rivalry, alienation, dependency, powerlessness in society, fear of freedom...
...fashion," says Harvard Psychologist Gordon Allport. Now there is more general concern about "total relationship" between parent and child. Sometimes the children themselves become ardent pop-psychers. "No one is more adept than a child at using psychological terms as a substitute for reality," says Chicago Child Psychiatrist Dr. Ner Littner. "Nine-and ten-year-olds chatter away quite happily about sibling rivalry, talking of the urge they have to kill an older brother or sister. But adolescent psychologizing is in the main an intellectual exercise that only goes skin-deep...
...same time, America's popularization of psychology is doing much to destroy the mystique that used to surround the psychiatrist. So is humor, from the countless stand-up-comics' jokes ("A psychoanalyst is a Jewish doctor who hates the sight of blood"), to the literary satires that are themselves becoming stock (Lillian Ross's Vertical and Horizontal). The mind doctor is looking more and more like any other pro with a job to do-a job not free from the pressure of automation. M.I.T. once programmed a computer to talk via typewriter like a psychiatrist. Excerpts from...
Darrow put Lieut. Massie on the stand to testify that he had leveled a loaded pistol at Kahahawai and had then blacked out. A defense psychiatrist explained that, at the moment, the lieutenant was "chemically" insane. To nearly everyone's consternation, the jury found Massie, Mrs. Fortescue and their two helpers guilty of manslaughter. Under territorial law, that gave the judge no option but to sentence them to ten years. But a wave of public outrage had overwhelmed the White House on Massie's behalf. Hawaii's Territorial Governor Lawrence Judd got his orders from President Hoover...