Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illness, but could not track it down. It took eight minutes to hypnotize the patient, and while in the trance, he had one of his spells, with "the shakes." In a second session he reported seeing a shipwreck, but tried to ignore it. At last, prodded by the therapist, he recalled and relived his own shipwreck of seven years before, when many of his buddies died in a torpedo attack. Conscious again, he admitted that he had been brooding and dreaming about that attack. He was shown that his spells were a device to shut it out. Instead of surgery...
...best testimonial to the Cureton method is the 165-lb., 9 in. physical therapist himself. Seven years ago, at 42, he dropped in at the Air Force's Chanute Field, took the training obstacle course on a dare, broke the course record by eight seconds. The record still stands. "My father, a sedentary worker," says Dr. Cureton, "died much too young, at the age of 60. My mother, now 75, swims in the ocean every...
...clerical collar, gets most of his patients from churches or through the special midday services which he conducts for those who are troubled in spirit. Both brothers, however, look upon the church setting as an important element in their work. Reasons: 1) it gives added authority to the therapist; 2) it provides a familiar atmosphere "of protection, love and forgiveness"; 3) it reduces the patient's fear of psychology as something to do with the "abnormal" or "insane"; 4) it unites the group...
...That Stuff." This is the gruesome world of Tomboy, a novel with the stiff and one-dimensional authenticity of a social worker's report. Every incident in the book, says Author Ellson, is true, based on material he collected while working as a "recreational therapist" with young delinquents in New York City...
Miniature Mobsters. Despite its fascinating subject, Tomboy is no great shakes as a novel. Its surface action is credible enough, but when Therapist-Novelist Ellson tries to explain what makes his little hoodlums run, he is much too pat and predictable. Unlike such other slum novelists as James T. Farrell (Studs Lonigan) and Nelson Algren (The Man with the Golden Arm), he lacks the gift for individualizing his miniature mobsters and thereby arousing sympathy for them. The chances are that Ellson, who is a better reporter than novelist, would have done just as well to turn his notes into...