Word: psychiatrists
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...post as a science instructor on the night staff of Queensland Teachers College, and studied medicine during the day. By 1953 he had established a medical practice that was earning him more than $11,000 a year in North Strathfield, a middle-class Sydney suburb; he was a psychiatrist as well as a general practitioner...
...elevators again. You and a psychiatrist step inside, and press buttons. You wait, and look at each other suspiciously. Suddenly the psych screams "these goddam things" and starts jumping up and down. You wonder if he is some kind of nut. Breathing heavily, he explains that the only way to get upstairs is by jumping...
...Richard Diver (Jason Robards Jr.), a young American psychiatrist, attached to a clinic in Zurich, who has committed an emotional breach of professional ethics: he has fallen in love with a patient named Nicole (Actress Jones), a charming American girl whose father has left her several million dollars and a psychosis-the aftermath of an incestuous episode. The head of the clinic (Paul Lukas) urgently warns Robards against the union: "A man cannot be both lover and psychiatrist to the same woman. You cannot be an impossible image of perfection, a god. and a husband too. When she discovers...
...gives it-partly for medical reasons, partly from husbandly affection, partly because he is too weak to resist: he has always had "a fatal desire to please." He begins to neglect his work, live on her money, belabor the booze. The tabloids play him up as a "playboy psychiatrist." And strangely, by a species of bloodless transfusion, she gets stronger as he gets weaker. In the end, she breaks her dependency, breaks the marriage, breaks his spirit. She goes on to another marriage. He goes back to a small town in upstate New York...
...Corps doctor whose name is Newman and, according to one of his peers, "he acts as if it were Newton." Or perhaps just N*E*W*M*A*N. At any rate, he is brilliant, engaging, confident, commanding, twice the size of life, and certainly the most revved-up psychiatrist who ever helped a patient recover from the terrors of the wild blue yonder...