Word: stainbrook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trying to say: "Nobody cares about me, so I have to take care of myself. I'd like someone to care for me in the same way that I care about myself." If the physician treats this patient's physical complaints and nothing more, said Dr. Stainbrook, he is wasting everybody's time. For the real medical truth is hid den in the patient's locked-up emotions...
...medical meaning of many so-called psychosomatic and mental illnesses, Dr. Stainbrook believes, is that people feel dependent and want to be cared for. But this is socially unacceptable: "We force people to invent symptoms, rather than letting them say simply, 'I just need help for a while.' " Such a desire to be dependent may occur naturally at any of the major crossroads in life, Dr. Stainbrook said, and should not be regarded as an emotional illness. The real trouble in today's culture, he suggested, is that although everybody obviously must have feelings and emotions...