Word: stainbrook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people whom chains could never heal. The second was Freud's insights into the emotional topography of the mind. The third is crisis intervention: a radical and still experimental attempt to try emotional first aid on someone who seems headed straight for a mental institution. Says Dr. Edward Stainbrook, chairman of the department of psychiatry at the University of Southern California's medical school: "The geneticist figures you're done for when you're born. The psychoanalyst figures you're done for when you're six. But the crisis intervener says...
...claiming insanity are most often accused of the crimes for which juries have least sympathy: murder, armed robbery, arson or rape. Hence defense lawyers load their questions to experts, hoping to produce answers convincing enough to overcome the layman's often exaggerated presumption of sanity. Says Psychiatrist Edward Stainbrook, "If one side strays from observation to inference, the other side has no choice but to make its own inferences...
...considerable talent of a great many homosexuals, and ideally, talent alone is what should count. But the great artists so often cited as evidence of the homosexual's creativity-the Leonardos and Michelangelos -are probably the exceptions of genius. For the most part, thinks Los Angeles Psychiatrist Edward Stainbrook, homosexuals are failed artists, and their special creative gift a myth. No less an authority than Somerset Maugham felt that the homosexual, "however subtly he sees life, cannot see it whole," and lacks "the deep seriousness over certain things that normal men take seriously ... He has small power of invention...
...censure them. No one will go to a doctor and complain merely of unhappiness, because that is not acceptable, but unhappiness along with constipation is acceptable, and the doc tor must treat both. He can prescribe medication for the constipation easily enough, but for the unhappiness, said Dr. Stainbrook, he must offer the treatment recommended by British Psychiatrist Michael Balint: his time, his personality and his attention. He can do this merely by listening attentively, and thus convincing the patient that somebody cares. Often this is all that is needed-plus the confidence that the same care will be available...
...Stainbrook and others emphasized that they were not saying that every family doctor should become a part-time psychiatrist. But they agreed that family doctors should recognize that in at least half their cases the patient is using the apparent part of his illness in an effort to say something that he cannot express any other way. Only in a minority of cases is this difficulty of communication severe enough to require a psychiatrist...