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...experience," Farnsworth says, "the present college generation has to a large extent either overcome, or else has not acquired the idea that seeing a psychiatrist is a disgrace, that it is an admission that one is crazy or a weakling, or that it it an unwanted luxury...
...paradox arises here, to which the Hygiene Department's 1953-54 annual report called attention: "Unfortunately those students who require lengthy treatment are the ones most apt to provide the psychiatrist with a more thorough understanding of the psychological difficulties which beset students' lives...
Coon feels this explains why disorders which, if found in an older person might lead to ominous predictions, but among students yield rapidly to treatment. An American-Psychological Association pamphlet put it another way: the college psychiatrist "sees people who are of superior intelligence, who are 'fresh from their symptoms,' and who are for the most part eager to get on with their work as soon as possible...
Farnworth, in an essay for a college and school association, called "Success and Failure as Viewed by the College Psychiatrist" has characterized the college years as ones of tension between biological maturity and the normal impossibility of marriage, of possibly frantic efforts to belong to the new college society, and of uncertainty, as well as ferment, of ideas...
Coon and Farnsworth have no ready explanation for the sudden spurt in the number of voluntary appearances at the Clinic. The services it offers have been advertised for years. Farnsworth has noted little resistance among students when the idea they might benefit from a talk with a psychiatrist is suggested. Coon says that his experience in first meeting students is that they are not too uneasy...