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...those who fear that the new researchers are out to reduce all human emotions and problems to chemistry's atoms and molecules, Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin, chief of clinical psychobiology at the National Institute of Mental Health, has a tranquilizing message: "There is a chemistry of the human brain, but it acts in response to the environment." Goodwin also points out gently that brain research has not yet produced any new treatments for mental disease. In fact, the only early result expected from the research is agreement of existing antipsychotic and antidepressant drugs to eliminate side effects. Ross Baldessarini...
Nevertheless, the research has been impressive enough to start a rush in the direction of psychopharmacology. People with titles like biochemist, psychobiologist, neurophysiologist and psychopharmacologist are attracting scarce federal funds and replacing traditional psychiatrists as chairmen of hospital psychiatry departments. The field offers what psychiatry seems to have been yearning for all through the 1970s: scientific expertise, medical underpinnings and an escape from the troublesome subjectivity of the human mind...
...that the average psychoanalyst had 4.7 patients under treatment, down from 6.2 a decade earlier. Applications to the Freudian training institutes are also declining. When Psychoanalyst Herbert Hendin director of the Center for Psychosocial Studies in Montrose, N Y., applied to the prestigious Columbia Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research a generation ago, more than 120 students competed for nine openings. "Now," he says, they're lucky to get twelve applicants for roughly the same number of spots...
Later this year the Lahaina Restoration Foundation will have almost totally rebuilt Carthaginian II (named for the fictional vessel in James Michener's Hawaii), which will be a true replica of a 19th century trader. One of the foundation's major enterprises is a marine research center which is trying to preserve the endangered humpbacks, of which there are perhaps only 850 left. (By dialing 667-9316 you can hear them "singing.") The foundation has also restored to Victorian primness the home of the Baldwin family, pioneer missionaries and landowners of whom the natives still say: "They came...
...postponed formal action on the proposal which calls for an Office of Foreign Study to coordinate administration and research for the program and a committee to evaluate all student's study-abroad petitions...