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...Ottesen-Jensen, "can a boy or girl of 17 or 18 know the difference between love and plain old biological urge?" "Oh, they can tell love," she said. "They can tell real love." Everyone nodded in agreement. A small, dark man who, I later learned, was a psychiatrist, tried to explain. "The only difference between our behavior here and behavior in other countries is that we face the facts," he said. "Young people sleep together everywhere. We don't frown and tell them that it is sinful and expect that that will prevent it. Since they're going...
...Dividend. In Indianapolis, Criminal Court Judge Saul I. Rabb rejected a request that the jury members in a robbery case be examined by a psychiatrist, commented: "There's no statutory requirement that a juror be sane...
Dillenberger added that such examinations would be nothing unusual at a divinity school since almost all Episcopal seminaries require them. The Union Theological Seminary and the Yale Divinity School also offer extensive counseling service and keep a psychiatrist on their faculty...
...current A.M.A. Journal, University of California Psychiatrist Frederick G. Worden and Psychologist James T. Marsh supply some of the facts about men who confuse their sex identity. They studied a group of American men of normal male appearance (testes, beard, etc.) who sought to lose their masculinity by surgery. Finding: each of the men really thought that he was a woman who had been given a man's body by mistake...
...When, in 1951. Monte Durham was arrested in a petty housebreaking, he had been in and out of St. Elizabeths Hospital four times in six years. Psychiatrist Joseph Gilbert had no hesitation in testifying that Durham was of "unsound mind" at the time of the crime. Under the M'Naghten rule, the question was whether he knew that what he was doing was wrong. Said Dr. Gilbert in effect: this could not be answered yes or no. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia reversed Durham's conviction on a technicality, then held...