Word: redlich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following ten members of the Class of 1954 were elected to the Board of Students Advisors: Louisa H. Clark, Edward M. Cowett, Moses G. Ehrlich, David B. Keller, David J. Melamed, Allen Redlich, Lester Rosen, Frederick R. Scher, John D. Stoner, Herbert P. Williams...
...Truth serum" doesn't necessarily make people blurt out the truth. In the current American Journal of Psychiatry, Professor Frederick C. Redlich of Yale University Medical School tells how he and his associates arrived at that conclusion after an experimental sampling of students and professional people, some normal, some slightly neurotic...
...experiment indicates, according to Professor Redlich, that well-balanced people can stick to a lie in spite of sodium amytal. But neurotics are likely either to confess eagerly, as the ex-model did, or get all tangled up, sometimes telling fantasies more damaging than the truth. In any case, Professor Redlich believes that statements made under the influence of sodium amytal and related drugs should not be treated as simple truth. A psychiatrist might make some sense out of them, but not a judge or a jury...
Professor Redlich does not know whether "truth drugs" are used in totalitarian countries to get confessions; they may not be necessary. "We suspect," he says, "that many of the striking confessions in police states were obtained from severely neurotic, guilt-ridden and self-punitive persons. Such persons are likely to confess without much pressure; but even the less severely disturbed persons with guilt-producing fantasies will confess if ... weakened by prolonged, grueling and humiliating interrogation...
...Times Two. In Atlantic City, at a meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association, Dr. Frederick C. Redlich, commenting on experiments he and two colleagues had conducted with 83 subjects and 36 cartoons, said that any man who laughs loudly at a mother-in-law joke probably does not like his mother...