Word: uhler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young team of Baltimore eye specialists, Dr. William Councilman Owens and his wife, Dr. Ella Uhler Owens, decided to begin at the beginning. In 1945 they started to study every baby weighing 4½ pounds or less born at Johns Hopkins Hospital or taken to its nursery. They observed 214 in two years. No baby had R.L.F. at birth, but five developed...
Hooray for Drs. Maskin and Uhler ! [TIME, Aug. 12]. To other adjectives describing many Army psychiatrists they might well have added smug, arrogant, bigoted, vindictive and sadistic...
Extremely happy to see your item about the Sad Sacks. I have spent some time around mental hospitals and prisons where I "accidentally" had access to files of psychiatric diagnosis. Uhler's note on the "Army's evasive psychiatric procedures by which a precise diagnosis was avoided in favor of mere description and paraphrase" would be a kind way to state the chaotic, uncritical "diagnosis" of psychiatrists in general...
Eight Balls. Dr. Claude Uhler of Dallas spent most of the war attached to an outfit of "eight balls," chronic misfits who had sifted down to the unexacting job of guard at a P.W. camp in the U.S. Thirty percent of them should have been discharged as unfit for any kind of duty, wrote Uhler in the A.M.A. Journal. They were kept in service by the Army's evasive psychiatric procedures by which a precise diagnosis was avoided in favor of mere description and paraphrase. Results: "More than one-half million misfits carried along for an indefinite period...
...Army's top psychiatrist, Brigadier General William C. Menninger, hit the ceiling when he read Dr. Uhler's charges, retorted last week in the A.M.A. Journal that Dr. Uhler himself "lacked the capacity to adjust"-i.e., must have been an eight ball. U.S. psychiatrists got ready to debate their own claims and pretensions as well as their Army gripes...