Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, on every front, psychiatry seems to be on the defensive. Private groups with names like Alliance for the Mentally Ill are beginning to batter the profession and its hospitals with the same kind of malpractice suits that plague the rest of medicine. Many psychiatrists want to abandon treatment of ordinary, everyday neurotics ("the worried well") to psychologists and the amateur Pop therapists. After all, does it take a hard-won M.D. degree (a prerequisite psychologists do not need) to chat sympathetically and tell a patient you're-much-too-hard-on-yourself? And if psychiatry is a medical treatment...
...occasional crude Cuckoo's Nest lobotomy. Though most of Europe's intelligentsia remained unimpressed with Freud, a generation of largely Jewish disciples of the master, fleeing Hitler and the Nazis, spread the faith widely in the U.S. It quickly attracted the well-to-do, who could alford the treatment, and enticed the literati, who were smitten by the subtlety and symbolism of these fashionable excursions into the subconscious...
Freudian psychoanalysts in particular, who account for only 10% of the nation's psychiatrists, have felt the common unhappiness of post-Freudian deflation. Freudian talk therapy is designed for the less seriously ill, precisely the constituency that has shifted toward quick Pop treatments. A 1976 survey by the American Psychoanalytic Association showed that the average psychoanalyst had 4.7 patients under treatment, down from 6.2 a decade earlier. Applications to the Freudian training institutes are also declining. When Psychoanalyst Herbert Hendin director of the Center for Psychosocial Studies in Montrose, N Y., applied to the prestigious Columbia Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training...
...Rafshoon complains about the "minute and 45 seconds" treatment of any issue on nightly TV newscasts, usually dramatized by some head-to-head conflict. Rafshoon scorn fully dismisses these as "process stories," not really what's going...