Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich Correspondent Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker interviewed Zürich Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, original Freud disciple who quarreled with Dr. Freud over personal problems and psychoanalytic theory 28 years ago, founded a rival psychoanalytic system. Adolf Hitler, said Dr. Jung, "belongs in the category of the truly mystic medicine man. . . When I have a patient [who believes he is] acting under the command of a higher power [see p. 18], a power within him . . . I dare not tell him to disobey. . . . He won't do it if I do tell him. ... All I can do is attempt . . . to induce...
...child gnaws on his rattle or chews his doll, if he crams his mouth with building blocks or paper, don't let him choke, but otherwise leave him alone. The mouth is an "important organ of investigation." Such was the advice Psychiatrist Alexander Reid Martin gave to dentists and public health specialists at a meeting on child dentistry in Manhattan last week. Parents who keep snatching things from their children's mouths not only prevent infants from exercising their jaws, but also cramp the development of personality, for a child's first "satisfactions and pleasures, his first...
...Gregory Zilboorg, prominent Manhattan psychiatrist, complained that legal technicalities deprive psychiatrists of the opportunity to study criminals. A murderer, he said, "is treated as the private property of the State, and no gaze of free inquiry may rest on his psyche." Only a psychiatrist, he said, can solve the "nuclear problem" of impulsive murder: why a murderer kills with slight provocation, and why he chooses a certain victim, often a complete stranger, at a given moment. He told of the case of the Manhattan upholsterer, John Fiorenza, who killed Mrs. Nancy Titterton in her Beekman Place apartment three years...
...Psychiatrist Fred Temple Burling of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. told of a wealthy young woman who had "an extravagant love" for the tremendous department store. She insisted on working for the store, no matter how small the job, even though she might have had positions with more social prestige. Dr. Burling soon discovered that the girl was deeply attached to her father, and that "she had personified the organization and transferred much of her fixation on her father to it." The case "may sound preposterous," concluded Dr. Burling, "but it is . . . an attitude I find pretty frequently...
...patients in the Psychiatry Clinic where the attendance has tripled. This does not mean, however, that three times as many men are crazy now as were in 1935, Dr. Bock said, but simply that students who are worried or depressed by life are more liable to go to the psychiatrist than previously...