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...panel came up with no conclusive findings, but recommended further investigation of toxic compounds and studied possible epidemiological causes of the disease, Swartz said yesterday...
...three specialists, Dr. Morton N. Swartz, professor of Medicine; Dr. Louis Weinstein, visiting professor of Medicine, and Dr. Alexander D. Langmuir '31, visiting professor of Epidemiology, were part of a panel of seven invited by the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta to review data on the Legionnaires' disease there...
Still, many patients feel resentful the minute their therapist leaves town. Explains Dr. Jacob Swartz of Boston: "It has to do with the mythology of the godlike physician, the fantasy that doctors are monklike hairshirt types who never need a vacation." Moreover, because a patient tends to establish a close parent-child relationship with his psychiatrist, he feels abandoned during his absence. Vacationing on Cape Cod last August, Manhattan Psychoanalyst David Mann received several phone calls from patients who had read about the novel Jaws. "They asked if I have been eaten by a shark. What they really wanted...
Fantasy Father. Some patients hope to punish their absent therapists by performing impulsive, even dangerous acts. Suicide attempts or threats are not uncommon. People under treatment for psychosomatic illnesses like asthma or ulcerative colitis have experienced violent flare-ups of their diseases while their psychiatrists were away. Swartz recalls that one debt-ridden patient suddenly took out a loan for a new Mercedes...
Active-Negative. Psychiatrists are outraged by such remote-control analysis. Protests Harvard's Dr. Robert Coles: "This is the most blatant kind of psychiatric reductionism. It's hard enough to interpret a person's motives or reasons even firsthand." Dr. Jacob Swartz of Boston, spokesman for the American Psychoanalytic Association, says: "To form a valid opinion, one should see the patient...