Word: psychiatrists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dual Delusion. All three, naturally, were critical of U.S. policy in Viet Nam -but in terms that were either so abstract or so oversimplified that the hawks were scarcely ruffled and the doves not much comforted. Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist Jerome Frank pointed out the truism that nations in conflict tend to ascribe the noblest of motives to themselves, the worst of intentions to their enemies. This dual delusion, he said, has given the war in Viet Nam "an ideological character similar to the holy wars of former times." In such a conflict, punishment has "particularly little likelihood of success...
Recently she solicited volunteers for a nationwide Psychedelic Telephone Directory because, she said, during "sessions" when the urge to call arises "there should be someone more appropriate to phone than your mother, your ex-girl, or your psychiatrist...
...Meek." She was hospitalized for physical and nervous exhaustion. Why had Bicycle Bill taken her? One explanation was offered by Psychiatrist John P. Shovlin, superintendent of the state hospital where Hollenbaugh had been confined. Recalling him as a typically "shy, meek" schizophrenic who "was always retreating," Shovlin noted: "These people find it painful to associate with people of their own age. They sometimes seek the companionship of someone much younger...
Then Bazelon met a psychiatrist who not only "revealed to me my true personality," but steered him to an ear doctor who restored his hearing with an operation. Suddenly, he recalls, "the violent, silent world inside me erupted. I came out of my shell." And how. Exclaims Bazelon: "I became outgoing, warm, animated, tremendously buoyant -a rock 'em, sock 'em personality. And my music became just as dramatic as I am." exit Irwin; enter...
Died. Dr. Mathilde Ludendorff, 89, bizarre German psychiatrist, famed throughout Europe in the early 1900s for her free-swinging approach to sex in such books as Erotic Rebirth, who later turned strident nationalist, blaming Germany's World War I defeat on Masons, Jesuits and, most particularly, Jews, and toured the country in flowing robes embroidered with Nordic symbols, preaching hate and accusing Hitler of being too far left; after pneumonia; in Tutzing, Germany...