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Sort of Beat. At first, back in Allentown, Pa., Lillian took up the trombone merely because it gave her a chance to get into local football games free, as a member of the Central Catholic High School band. What she thought she wanted then was to become a psychiatrist-largely because she had seen the movie Spellbound (in which Ingrid Bergman played psychiatrist to Gregory Peck's paranoid guilt complex). But then Lillian began to listen to such jazz artists as Baritone Saxman Gerry Mulligan and Trumpeter Chet Baker, and she became enthusiastic about her trombone...
...wrong way to begin a marriage is with a honeymoon. So says British Psychiatrist (and Member of Parliament) Reginald Bennett in The Practitioner: "The honeymoon is an ordeal. More often than not it is a ghastly disappointment, and one whose personal humiliations no excuses ... can mitigate. All too often the girl, if she had been a good girl has lacked any semblance of learning in what to expect ... The naughty girl has gradually learned through experiment. So the wages of sin is serenity and the wages of virtue-shock, plus a married life endangered from the start . ._ " [After] the sheer...
...thoroughly than it does his wife-particularly if he is unstable to begin with. If he is in the armed forces, it can knock him out of the order of battle as mercilessly as an enemy bullet. These are the conclusions (reported in the Armed Forces Medical Journal) that Psychiatrist James L. Curtis reached after studying fathers at New York's Mitchel Air Force Base...
Surprisingly, some of the "normal" men in Group C behaved much the same way: several got morning sickness (though fewer headaches and less dizziness), and two became accident prone and three took to drink. What bothered Psychiatrist Curtis as much as anything was that physicians who referred airmen to him from sick call seemed to have no idea that expectant fatherhood could be disturbing. The military, he concludes, might well find out how many accidents or self-inflicted injuries it causes...
From pulpit and bench, from social workers and editorial writers, the U.S. regularly hears dire warnings about the growth of juvenile delinquency and the crisis this implies for urban civilization. Nonsense, says Dr. Lauretta Bender, senior psychiatrist at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital; the proportion of juvenile crime to urban population is no greater now than it was at the turn of the century. The interesting psychological question, she told a law-school forum at New York University last week, is: "Why are so many of our children not delinquent?" "Children have an amazing capacity to tolerate bad parents, poor...