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...psychiatrists warn that the value is limited. Strong-egoed subjects, for example, are apt to be largely unaffected by the drugs. Those most susceptible, the weak-willed and guilt-ridden, may succumb so completely, says Psychiatrist Fredrick Redlich, Yale's new medical dean (TIME, March 24), that they say what they sense their interrogator wants to hear. This can confound even highly trained psychiatrists. Truth drugs, says Redlich, put patients in "a twilight zone where it is very difficult to tell truth from fantasy." Some people, in fact, can lie at will under the truth drugs. In an experiment...
Undogmatic, Uncommitted. Dr. Redlich was being overmodest; the appointment was as much a tribute to his personal qualities. Originally Fritz Karl Redlich, he fled Vienna and Nazism in 1938 because of his partly Jewish ancestry. During World War II, he anglicized his name after being told, "You can't be named Fritz like every prisoner of war." But he still signs letters "Fritz" and uses it on popular books...
Like his Landsmann, Freud (whom he never met), Dr. Redlich began his professional career as a neurologist, then switched to the social and analytic sides of psychiatry. He says that his approach is "basically Freudian," but of his Yale department he insists: "We are undogmatic, uncommitted to any particular point of view or school of thought. We are at the threshold of a broad new psychiatry that will use the knowledge of many disciplines...
...state hospital if the patient was poor, but diagnosed as a "personality problem" and treated in the office by a private psychiatrist if the patient could afford it. It was a natural progression from that to the establishment of the Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven, with Dr. Redlich as director and members of his psychiatry department as staff. This has now grown to a task force of 73, counting 45 psychiatrists, 13 clinical psychologists and ten social workers; much of their time is spent in treatment and research at the $5,000,000 center, which offers low-cost...
...thanks to Redlich, required courses take three hours a week for most of the four years. Dr. Redlich's emphasis on the social aspects of mental health will soon be extended to the entire medical school, which has a faculty of 1,072 (511 full-time). Yale, the nation's sixth oldest medical school, generally rated among the top six in excellence, is revamping its curriculum with the aim of producing physicians who will combine excellence in scientific training with the ability to see their patients not as "cases" but as human beings in a social setting. That...