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...faculty opposition came from those who felt that "the psychiatrist should not anticipate mental trouble, but should wait for it and then cure...
Died. Dr. Manfred Joshua Sakel, 57, Austrian-born U.S. psychiatrist, originator of insulin shock treatment for schizophrenia; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1927, while treating a famed European actress who was a diabetic and drug addict, Dr. Sakel accidentally administered an overdose of insulin, was amazed to see her craving for morphine subside. Theorizing on the correlation between physical and mental illnesses, he went on to try his overdoses on alcoholics and schizophrenics; in both cases the patients improved...
Without taking exception to the nobili- ty of Dr. Farnsworth's ideal, we may wonder whether his observation is not self-evident We may even deplore his failure to render the one service to his ideal which might be expected from a college psychiatrist with two decades of diverse experience: a chapter of "what is definitely known about the relationship between personality development and optimum intellectual functioning." Unfortunately, this book bolsters the assumption that nothing is definitely known except that in some indefinite way the two are connected...
...painters now making their marks in Manhattan, Paris, Rome. Of his own development, he says: "Each man has to find his own way. Painting forces ideas. A man has to struggle to stand, to go beyond all the extraneous material in him which is just material for a psychiatrist's filing cabinet. I fought my own way out of this ocean to what is my own expression. But what the people want is not a bull in a field, but a Howard Johnson hamburger...
CHILDREN : "We are being very careful with our children [four boys, aged 4 to 12]. They'll never have to pay a psychiatrist twenty-five dollars an hour to find out why we rejected them. We'll tell them why we rejected them. Because they're impossible, that...