Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dellinger's approach is the kind that is needed to bring any type of political change. Rubin's style, manic, egocentric, theatrical in the worst sense of the word, can provide entertainment, but not real change. He is looking for a brilliant, beautiful spark which will come only in fiction...
...They are always dealing with a lot of problems about race that must use up a lot of their energy. Even when you just walk into a room, race is always there, taking its toll." At the same time, says Poussaint, "black people always seem a bit ambivalent, the approach-avoidance, love-hate type of feelings." They are particularly ambivalent toward the dominant white society; they may be attracted by some of it and yet also despise much of what it stands...
Different Approaches. Treating a black patient and treating a white patient can call for differences in approach, and some black psychiatrists subtly accommodate them. Where traditional therapy encourages the patient to adjust to the world as it is, black therapy extends a more activist invitation. "How can you tell a black patient to adjust to this society?" asks Black Psychiatrist Price M. Cobbs. "We don't. For the black patient to become healthy, he must engage himself in changing a society that needs changing." This is not to say, of course, that all black emotional problems can be traced...
...something about heating his home. Or if you've treated a patient for an infection from a rat bite, it's no use sending him home to be bitten again. You have to do something about the rats. That's where the community medical approach comes...
...Egeberg, that some of the most venerable medical schools in the country have not yet recognized the need for this new medicine: "They will have to follow the lead that Meharry is helping to chart, in the way that they train their students and in their approach to meeting the long-neglected health needs of the poor...