Word: psychiatrists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quick now," said the psychiatrist. "Which is left and which is right? What is missing in the picture? How many legs has a centipede...
...Benchley's affidavit formed, with four other affidavits, part of a petition sent last week to Governor Fuller of Massachusetts by Mr. Vanzetti. Mr. Sacco refused to sign the petition, calling it inconsistent with his anarchistic principles. Dr. Abraham Myerson, Boston psychiatrist, said that Mr. Sacco's seven years of confinement had "brought about an abnormal state in which his [radical] fanaticism has been intensified into an obsession." In spite of Mr. Sacco's refusal to sign, the petition was presented as a joint plea from both the condemned...
Died. Rigby Wile, 16, son of Ira Solomon Wile, M. D., famed psychiatrist-child specialist; in his father's home in Manhattan; by self-inflicted rifle shot, because he found life "futile." Said Dr. Wile: "I have no idea what led him to such a philosophy...
Inverting a famed trade slogan, Dr. Faunce declared: "Hundreds of American students are held back by mental conditions of which their best friends are often unaware." The appointment of "the best men in the medical profession" was expected to save unbalanced Brown students from the tender mercies of the psychiatrist, from whose diagnoses amateur introspectors have been known to derive harmful results, trying to "live up to their characteristics...
...according to an Associated Press dispatch of yesterday, has given 150 diplomas and disbanded for the year. This institution, located in Chicago, has had more than 20,000 men on its roster in the past term. "One of the qualifications for graduation", says the dispatch, "was examination by a psychiatrist, the college faculty holding that prolonged vagrancy indicated a psychopathic condition." As far as a true vagabond is concerned, this is indefensible,--diplomas and examinations. What after all, is the use of vagabonding...