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...psychiatry all that it is cracked up to be? Emphatically not, says Montreal Psychiatrist Elliott Emanuel. "In our generation," he writes in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, "some of the biggest names in psychiatry are men whose scientific contributions have been negligible, whose contact with individual patients has been minimal for several years, and whose time is devoted to committees, journalism, and publicity for themselves and their institutions . . . Within the various schools of psychiatry we have much mutual backslapping and back-scratching in spite of intense personal rivalry, while a bland and successful façade is presented...
...analytic movement has spawned a dozen heresies, and illustrates the process whereby the least certainty generates the greatest dogmatism . . . Grandiose fantasies of reforming the world are common." Dr. Emanuel tartly quotes an eminent fellow Canadian, Psychiatrist Brock Chisholm, former (1948-53) head of U.N.'s World Health Organization: "In psychiatry . . . lies the best hope of resolving international tensions and so preventing war. The greatest need is that everybody should reach emotional maturity free from neurotic drives." Congresses of psychiatrists themselves. Dr. Emanuel comments, "are not remarkably free from tensions, nor are the families of psychiatrists notable for their mental...
...chapters. Courage's President Philip Guba, 35, a corporation lawyer who caught polio in Indonesia 2½years ago, is currently working with Courage's 21 directors to broaden the organization. Their goal: a nationwide Courage, Inc. As for Founder Cayley, she has become a practicing psychiatrist, although still confined to a wheelchair, and at 53 is busier than ever. She now drives her own car, leads an active social life. Once the women's long-distance swimming champion of Hungary, she can still swim a three-quarter-mile-wide lake. Says...
Basic plans for the new units were roughed out on the living-room floor of Child Psychiatrist Ralph D. Rabinovitch and his psychiatrist-wife Sara Dubo. (They have since resigned, will leave after the unit is in full operation.) In the planning, their first premise was that a mentally ill child has suffered a lack of something vital in his home life. It would only make things worse to keep him in an old-fashioned institution. So, despite all the precautions needed for damage control, they stressed what Dr. Waggoner calls the positive, made the atmosphere in the unit...
...class plunged promptly, if not deeply, into Freudian theory. Psychiatrist Herbert Modlin ticked off basic personality types, and told how to recognize some of the tricks of the unconscious in employees' behavior. Examples: a compulsive, conservative accountant may be reacting against childhood impulses to be dirty and rebellious; an ambitious man may have developed from a passive child, a philanthropist from the bullyboy who tied tin cans to cats' tails; an employee oversuspicious of everybody else's motives may act that way because his own unconscious motives are basically unworthy. A passive and compliant type who will...