Word: psychosomaticist
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...family physician bucks the case to a psychosomaticist, who flounders in jargon. It takes a young Jesuit psychiatrist-priest, equally familiar with the uses of Librium and prayer, to understand that Regan suffers from old-fashioned possession by the devil. Sometimes known as Captain Howdy, he speaks through Regan's mouth, fills her room with his bad breath and levitates furniture. Lacking any of the stature of his medieval forms or any of the wit of his 19th and 20th century literary incarnations, this devil seems little more than a pathetic old pedophiliac clinging to the mere body...
...doctor who believes that Franklin's dictum can come true is Manhattan's famed Psychosomaticist Flanders Dunbar. But how? It occurred to her that one way to find out was to study men and women who have defied the aging process by living a hundred years or more, see what had made them tick so long. By questionnaire and personal interviews, Dr. Dunbar and her collaborators quizzed some 300 oldsters, 20% of all the living white centenarians born in the U.S. (excluding others because of the difficulty of confirming birth records). Last week, before the Third Congress...
...commonest and most neglected illness in the U.S. today is money-sickness, Dr. William Kaufman told the American Psychiatric Association in Boston last week. And one reason why it is not often detected, said the Bridgeport (Conn.) psychosomaticist, is that many doctors have their own unresolved problems regarding the use of money. This serves as an unconscious check which keeps them from recognizing or investigating the abnormal psycho-economic behavior of their patients...
...years. They began when a church-going Omaha pediatrician named Dr. Charles Tompkins decided that while ministers and psychiatrists were trying to do much the same job, the psychiatrists were doing it better. He persuaded his medical-school classmate, Dr. G. Alexander ("Bob") Young Jr., who became a psychosomaticist after the war, to take on a group of ministers for lectures, discussions and group therapy. Then he persuaded the Rev. Ben Wallace of Omaha's Hanscom Park Methodist Church to help round up a group...
Joseph Augustus Winter is an M.D. who got into dianetics in its early, science-fiction days. Physician Winter, a Manhattan psychosomaticist, was impressed by Hubbard's theory that the mind can register impressions ("engrams") even during unconsciousness. And he was soon convinced that the dianetics technique of relieving emotional upsets by reliving them before another dianetics devotee ("auditing") was an improvement on psychoanalysis. An auditing session, says Dr. Winter, cured his six-year-old son of a fear of the dark and ghosts. Winter also credits his son with "remembering," thanks to dianetics, the process of his birth...
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