Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...none of the questions that the young captain began raising as soon as he was assigned to psychiatric duty at Fort Knox. Because the Army sets the welfare of the unit above that of the individual, Switkes argued, the psychiatrist is forced to pervert his true role as a therapist. In military service, he says, "the well-adjusted personality becomes the one which can function within the unit, not the one at peace with itself...
Died. Dr. Eric Berne, 60, psychiatrist and author of Games People Play; of a heart attack; in Monterey, Calif. As a group therapist, he observed that people acted and reacted in repetitious, tightly defined ritual "games." After further casework and analysis buttressed his findings, he invented breezy names (Frigid Woman; Now I've Got You, You Son of a Bitch; I'm Only Trying to Help You) and published Games in 1964. Intended for therapists, the book scored a sales blitz (650,000 hardcover, 2,000,000 paperback). It also attracted criticism from Berne's colleagues...
...lieutenant with the 10th Mountain Division, he was severely wounded in Italy during World War II, and spent more than three years in Army hospitals. Unable to use his partially paralyzed right arm, he got through college and law school with the help of his wife, Phyllis, an occupational therapist who took his notes and wrote down his answers to examination questions. He has since taught himself to write with his left hand. He began his politica1 career in the Kansas state legislature, served four terms as a county attorney before seeking his first House seat...
Disturbing Alternative. This feat is all the more remarkable because May, now a vigorous 61, espouses a theory that is unpopular in his professional field and almost unknown beyond it. He is an existential therapist. This practice, which claims only a few hundred adherents in the U.S., is dismissed in some quarters as either trivial or derivative. For ordinary travelers, the theory makes heavy going indeed. Love and Will demands of even the most persistent reader the same emotional and intellectual commitment that the author made three decades...
...explored with remarkable perception and puissance in Diary of a Schiiophrenic Girl. The movie demonstrates that although no mental illness is less understood than schizophrenia, some schizophrenics can be cured. It also shows how hideously time-consuming the process can be, and what exorbitant demands it makes upon the therapist, which explains why such intensive treatment can be available for only the very few. A single patient may occupy almost all of an analyst's time, for months or years...