Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...degree of stress is such that it is simply part of growing up and when it is part of an emotional disorder. No one would wish to institute psychotherapy with young men or women whose painful struggles are moving them closer to an understanding of themselves or of their relationship with the external world. But for other individuals, hard to distinguish from their fellows, the general confusions of adolescence mask a diffusion and despair not characteristic of a developmental phase, but indicative of emotional disorder. This differentiation of normal developmental crisis from emotional disorder, this ability to pick out disturbance...
...might be described as "having tuberculosis." Very much as in the case of automobile accidents, society appears to be verging toward a redefinition of this issue: what has hitherto been seen as a problem of public order is increasingly being defined as one of public health. Nor surprisingly, the relationship between these two public health problems is being increasingly perceived...
...case-aide is not coming back, this is made clear. It is unfortunate, as is any break in a relationship, or a friendship. It is guilt-inducing, but the realities are that Harvard students go off places come sommertime. Those that have stayed have tended to get involved in the summer program, and have gone out to see their patients--usually without supervision. They don't just sit on the ward and talk to patients. If the weather's nice they take them out. If they have cars, they might take them to Harvard Square or something. They...
...martinet in this regard: You do make a contract with your patient, and you have a sem-i professional relationship, insofar as you have a commitment. I also very much believe in activism--in getting the case-aide and patient to talk to the doctors, in discussing getting medication lowered if the patient thinks it's too high; in relating to the ward personnel, the nurses and attendants, and trying to learn from them even if one does not take everything they say at face value...
...entry party and sat around drinking beer for a couple of hours. I had expected a little more interest in what was going on in the world. Everybody was saying nonsensical things. So I left. So I sorta felt alienated from that group and that cut off my relationship to the entry. Across the hall were a couple of socialite types and I didn't get along with them...