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...first time in the University's history a psychiatrist is now directing the Hygiene Department. This situation reflects not a trend in college students, but rather a trend in the thinking of college administrations. And the psychiatrist who initiated it is the same person who has been brought up river from the lower Charles to carry it out, Dana L. Farnsworth. He has identified himself with the college health movement in medicine, led it, and introduced mental hygiene in its program...
Because the ordinary student doesn't think of consulting a psychiatrist about problems, and even has an aversion to it, Farnsworth has to be an amazing advertising man. Fully aware that the public distrusts mental medicine, he has sold psychiatry to colleges across the country and included himself in the sale three times...
After winning academic approval, he had to extend the atmosphere of confidence to the students. Here he was quick to realize the complications of psychiatry. "When a dean or teacher refers a student to a psychiatrist, he is quite naturally desirous of having some kind of follow-up report." But Farnsworth's gift of explanation has won him the trust of faculties, and his personal secrecy has secured the faith of students. Psychiatric records, for example, are not put on general medical reports. But students who want to talk something over with a psychiatrist wait for him in the same...
Could be that you need a psychiatrist...
Speaking to the mental health society in Dallas, Topeka's famed Psychiatrist William C. Menninger deplored the tendency of most Americans to lose sight of the mind in their zeal over certain bodies. "Almost every female in her late teens and 20s knows the chest and waist and hip measurements of Miss America," cried he. "In mental health, unfortunately, we do not have such a widely understood set of goals...