Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Survey teams had inspected the inn in December. David Freeman, director of the state Department of Social Services, said yesterday. "They found nothing to cause concern. The place was clean and well-kept. "It was better than most," he added...
...fact, during the 1960s and early '70s, many psychiatrists put some distance between themselves and organized medicine, identifying more with psychologists, sociologists and other social scientists than with their fellow doctors. Indeed psychiatry seemed almost ashamed of its medical origins, preferring to see itself as a softer, almost humanistic discipline. Along with this greening of psychiatry, the myth developed that it might be able to cure such serious social illnesses as drug abuse, delinquency and crime. Many psychiatrists even wondered why specialists of the human mind had to go to medical school at all. But all that has changed...
...move is an effort by psychiatry to retrieve its cloak of medical respectability at a time when the public is confusing it with charlatan therapies. Psychiatrists also are becoming more hard-nosed. They are increasingly convinced that their profession may not have the answers to profound political and social problems, and should perhaps restrict itself to getting measurable results with the truly sick. One current refrain: psychiatrists should become good team players, assisting other medical specialists in fulfilling their obligations to the sick. Many hospitals now have psychiatrists available for consultation on every kind of problem faced by doctors...
More rankling still is the recent perception of male psychiatrists as sexual exploiters of their women patients. Though such behavior is clearly a violation of the Freudian ethic, which forbids any social contact between patient and doctor, to say nothing of the Hippocratic oath, there is clearly some fire behind the smoke. In Florida alone, nine psychiatrists last year were charged with sexual misconduct during therapy; in a recent poll of 500 psychiatrists, a medical journal found that a surprising 19% said that they approved of doctor-patient sex under some circumstances. The intimate relationships in therapy obviously make both...
Instead of emptying out, state hospitals are just as crowded?but with a higher percentage of untreatable patients. Many of these hapless people, in addition to their mental problems, are poor, infirm or alone and without any basic social skills to survive in the outside world. The drive to empty the hospitals may have gone as far as it can go. The readmission rate is up from 25% in 1960 to more than 65% today, which may indicate that too many have been released. As many as half of those discharged are now living alone, without the family support that...