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When Vienna-born Dr. Fredrick Carl Redlich was tapped in 1951 to head the department of psychiatry at Yale University's School of Medicine, he dreaded administrative duties. Over the years, he jokes, "they said that I ran the department like the old Austro-Hungarian empire-with absolutism mitigated by sloppiness." He improved his technique enough to suit Yale; last week University President Kingman Brewster Jr. announced the appointment of Dr. Redlich, 56, to be dean of the School of Medicine. Come July 1, he will succeed Pediatrician Vernon W. Lippard, 62, who will become a special adviser...
...naming of a psychiatrist to head a medical school is unusual but not un precedented.-Dr. Redlich himself sees it as a symbol of improved status for his specialty. "A generation ago," he said, "I'm sure Yale wouldn't have considered a psychiatrist for dean. But now we are taken much more seriously...
...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...
...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...