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...sharpest growth in the Service's history has taken place during the past two years, since Dana L. Farnsworth succeeded Arlie V. Bock as head of the University Health Services. During 1953-1954, Gaylord P. Coon, Chief of Psychiatry since 1946 and the only full-time psychiatrist, and other, part-time, psychiatrists saw a little over 500 patients, a decrease from the previous year. In 1954-55, Farnsworth's first year, Coon was still the only full-time man, and the Service saw nearly 600 people. Last year, the staff had been expanded to include four full-time psychiatrists, three...
...ionized, snuffled and sneezed far more in air that was artificially positive-ionized. As a result, Philco Corp. plans to market a negative-ionizing air conditioner. ¶Automobile-accident victims often report "brain concussions" and are admitted to hospitals for study, but in 30% of cases studied by Manhattan Psychiatrist Joost A. M. Meerloo they prove to have no physical injury. Instead they are suffering from mental shock. His prescription : mental first aid by any available doctor soon after the accident to save victims from neurotic guilt and horror feelings...
...Though meprobamate (brand-named Miltown and Equanil) has been hailed as least dangerous of the ataraxic drugs (TIME. Feb. 27), there are still a few patients for whom it can be harmful, warned Seattle Psychiatrist Frederick Lemere. It can be habit-forming because patients become dependent on it and re quire ever-increasing doses, and they show severe withdrawal symptoms when it is discontinued...
Miss Winn, a Manhattanite and the daughter of a psychiatrist, came to the United States with her family from Czechoslovakia...
From Handicap to Holiness. Bishop Marling feels that the saints provide an especially rich field for the psychiatrist. For Catholic writers often show a misguided tendency to suppress neurotic elements in the saints' biographies. For though "the struggle for perfection . . .tends to a balanced character, to genuine psychological unity," there is no need to deny that many saints were neurotic. In Bishop Marling's view, "Many a saint has borne a neurosis to a holy death, and enjoys the honors of the altar precisely because, though handicapped by ignorance of its nature and source, he struggled valiantly against...