Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patient is never forced to dance, Sometimes inviting gestures are employed. Sometimes a patient is won over by the group leader's sensitive response to his mood. In one session Miss Chace approached a woman who was shouting that people were sticking pins into her backside. The dance therapist, assuming the patient's indignant mood, countered that it must be good for her--or else they wouldn't do it--and that dancing would be good for her too. Would she join them...
...away from the group and to dance alone or in small groups. When she dances alone with a patient, she tries to adopt his mood. Joining a woman who was making broad bending movements and said she was scrubbing. Miss Chase started scrubbing too. The woman caught the dance therapist by the waist and the two moved up and down together, closer and closer to the floor. Just before the large housewife began to crush the therapist, the patient stood up, immensely relieved. Open expression, Miss Chace explained, had begun--the woman was admitting her hatred of housework...
...wanted to do metal work, but he could not reach a workbench from a wheelchair, and anyhow, he could not sit on the ulcer at the base of his spine. He had heard about stand-up beds and tilt-tables-so why not convert a wheelchair into something similar? Therapist Robert E. Craig and Dr. Hodge M. Eagleson Jr. worked with Boudreaux in perfecting a sort of surfboard-wheelchair combination...
Medical reluctance to call in the police is rooted both in therapeutic practice and the practicality of the law. Successful treatment of mental illness depends on the confidence of the patient in the therapist. If doctors were expected by the public and their patients to report every threatening remark, they would soon have few patients. Moreover, as New York's Deputy Police Commissioner Sylvan Fox noted last week, "we can't arrest people because they are ill." Adds New Jersey Psychiatrist Henry A. Davidson: "We are in a situation now where there is enormous pressure for civil rights. The idea...
...Teach Your Baby to Read is an almost evangelical ode to early learning by Physical Therapist Glenn Doman, who has been teaching preschool children with brain damage to read at Philadelphia's Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential. He contends that almost every young child has a "built-in rage for learning" and that parents have "a sacred duty to open the floodgate of all basic knowledge to him." Doman claims that a baby will take to the written word as easily as to the spoken language and can even learn to read before he learns to speak...