Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high time, declares Park Avenue Psychologist Andrew Salter, "that psychoanalysis, like the elephant of fable, dragged itself off to some distant jungle graveyard and died. Psychoanalysis has outlived its usefulness. Its methods are vague, its treatment is long drawn out, and more often than not, its results are insipid and unimpressive." With this blast against his rivals and competitors, Salter opens his Conditioned Reflex Therapy (Creative Age; $3.75), published last week. The book is more than a sneer at psychoanalysis and its father, Sigmund Freud; it is also a loose-jointed exposition of the wonders of Author Salter...
...hilarious performance of Thayer David as Sir Andrew Aguecheck, the production has more substance than the usual farce. Donald Stevens is a thoughtful and detached clown. While Robert Fletcher's griping, prissy interpretation of Malvolio excludes all customary pity for his plight, it does not justify the brutal treatment he receives from the fetching chambermaid, Jan Farrand, and her licentious colleagues, Sir Tobey and Sir Andrew...
Doctor Whittenberger revealed this week that at least one Boston police victim of the recent opidemic, was saved from death by the new machine. A six-day treatment brought the patient from a near hopeless condition to eventual recovery...
Because of this peculiarity of suspending the natural breathing, Dr. Whittenberger explained, the electrophrenic method is superior to the "Iron lung" in the treatment of the bulbar variation of the disease. The iron lung is unable to cope with the irregular breathing in cases of bulbar poliomyelitis...
This degrading treatment has never been explained. Is that all the immigration service has against Shortliffe? Very possibly not, for the visa was approved on June 20--after that experience. Sometime in the next four days (the exclusion order was dated June 24) the authorities changed their minds. Why they changed their minds is important to know. Unless strong evidence is made public, the only reasonable conclusion is that Shortliffe was barred by whim and small-minded officiousness...