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...current fare has everything: Cinemascope, Hypno Vista, a little terror, a little sex, and more laughs than the writer intended. Following a rollicking travelogue through Poland comes a sales pitch on hypnotism by a man we are assured is an eminent Hollywood psychiatrist. The movie we are about to see, he promises us, is a real tiger; within five minutes we're going to be scared silly...
...discriminative potential of the SPT was found to be considerably greater than that of three clinicians (a psychiatrist, psychologist, and criminologist who had been initially charged with selecting the boys for the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study. Thompson reported that the clinicians had correctly identified only 65 per cent in comparison with 91 per cent correctly identified...
Died. Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, 68, Russian-born Manhattan psychiatrist, secretary to the Minister of Labor in Kerensky's short-lived provisional government, who fled to the U.S. in 1919, helped found (1936) the Committee for the Study of Suicide in hopes of finding a prevention for suicide, psychoanalyzed well-heeled patients, wrote several books (Sigmund Freud, Freud and Religion); of cancer; in Manhattan...
...autocratic man of means, sees Lilli as a beautiful confirmation of his success. Along comes a handsome German-American playwright (Peter Van Eyck), who reminds Lilli of her former glory as a great actress, persuades her to star in his new drama about a nun who gets raped. Her psychiatrist decides that "somewhere in your mind there's a conflict," but everything is resolved when 1) Lilli has a therapeutic narcosis behind the padded doors of a neuological clinic, 2) the playwright makes love to her in an all-glass phone booth, and 3) her husband adds a lethal...
Died. Dr. Helen Flanders Dunbar, 57, psychiatrist who pioneered in the study of the relationship of emotions to physical disease, reduced psychosomatic medicine to laymen's terms (Mind and Body, a 1947 bestseller), urged parents baffled by conflicting psychiatric advice to find a middle way between too much old-fashioned discipline for their children and too much modern freedom; by drowning; in the pool of her home in South Kent, Conn...