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...last week the council heard new evidence in a tense, six-hour session with famed German-born Fredric Wertham, for 20 years senior psychiatrist in New York City's hospital system. Author of The Show of Violence and The Circle of Guilt, he has a knack of appearing in such cases. Dr. Wertham listed 19 telltale signs of schizophrenia, found all of them in Chapin. One was lack of insight. "When I asked him what made him commit the murders, he answered: 'It's the way I am, I guess.' " Another item: "I had the feeling...
Sick and tired of widely parroted statistics that one out of 16 persons (or, some say, one out of ten) will spend part of his life in a mental hospital, famed Psychiatrist William C. Menninger came out with a sweeping statistic of his own last week. He told the National Association for Mental Health: "Even the most startling of these figures . . . refer only to extreme cases of mental disorder. [They] overlook the common, everyday emotional disturbances which can be as upsetting and incapacitating as many of the physical illnesses. When we take these into account, the toll of mental...
Usable Guilt. What of cures? Psychiatrist Bergler takes his own profession to task for having been, in the past, too pessimistic. It can effect cures in 90% of cases, he insists, provided that analyst and patient are willing to take the tremendous time and effort to get to the root of the difficulty. By "cure" Bergler does not mean making a guilty homosexual proud of his perversion, but changing his character and, among other things, leading him to normal sexual enjoyment...
...Recalling the diagnosis by the psychiatrist in T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party: "Half of the harm that is done in this world/Is due to people who want to feel important...
...Last Word. In Los Angeles, after her husband, whom she was suing for divorce, complained to the court that she had run up bills for $3,100 in three months, partly for trips to a psychiatrist, Mrs. Portia Allegretti explained: "My husband said I was crazy and I wanted...