Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then a greying, grandmotherly woman wearing dancing slippers put a Strauss waltz on the phonograph and went to work. As always, the goal for Marian Chace, 62, the nation's leading dance therapist, was to make contact with the mentally ill, through music and movement...
Although she had seemingly accomplished her aim ("My job is to make a crack-through"). Therapist Chace knew full well that the effects of the session might be fleeting. But psychiatrists who have watched her strike some response in the minds of mental patients, are convinced of the value of her work. Dancing with her, patients sometimes cry out, "This is me!" Says St. Elizabeths' Superintendent Winfred Overholser: "There is no question but that Miss Chace's dance therapy is one means of bringing patients back to reality...
...keep up with her peers. As a high-school senior she won an American Legion essay contest. The prize: a scholarship at Marshall. There (she will be a senior next month) she is taking eleven credit hours, five of them in speech, and plans to become a speech therapist. An average of six times a year she has to go to St. Mary's Hospital for a few days and four pints of blood. But by various devices, such as always doing her homework in bed, Marclan saves enough energy to play the piano, teach in her father...
...says May, but serves as a foundation for psychologists to construct a broader base for their science and thus to understand man more intimately. In his theoretical view, this means introducing a new dimension-ontology. But to the patient undergoing treatment, one of the biggest differences is in the therapist's attitude to anxiety and guilt. In older, conventional psychology and psychiatry, says May, there was no place for really fundamental anxiety-about such basic issues as being and non-being-and there was no way to treat it. Most anxiety was assumed to be neurotic and the result...
Extended over a three-year period, the grant will be used to finance a professional director of volunteers, two or three group leaders, an occupational therapist and a full-time secretary...