Word: psychotherapist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both a physician and a Christian I beg to differ with the statements of Psychotherapist Jesse Harvey. The basis of Freudian psychotherapy is helping one see his faults, frustrations, inadequacies and failures in the light of his very nature. Christianity also points men to their shortcomings, faults, mistakes and inadequacies, makes known the Creator's displeasure with man's performance, but then wonderfully solves the dilemma by affording forgiveness for the past, strength for the present, and hope for the future...
...shudder to hear how Billy Graham "expounded the sinfulness of man . . . with the words, 'You are guilty ! You are guilty ! You are guilty ! . . . God looks at you . . . with his magnifying glass and sees your faults . . .' " As a psychotherapist, I spend most of my time attempting to remove from the backs of patients the great weight of guilt most of them have about expressing their genuine human nature. Men like Billy Graham degrade humanity by indicting man for simply being human, and, indirectly, help keep our mental hospitals full...
...manned spaceship takes off for Mars, it may be followed through emptiness by radio beams, perhaps by television. Comforting words and familiar sights from the receding earth will be useful for keeping the crew on an even mental keel. Also useful will be the voice of a soothing space psychotherapist...
...development of tranquilizing drugs appears to make psychotherapy for psychotics more possible. Recent creative experiments may lead to a mental "hospital without wall" or a "therapeutic community." Its importance at the University may be illustrated by the fact that at least one student in six will have seen a psychotherapist before the end of the year...
...revolt against the 19th century's physiological approach to mental illness. Freud admitted that the usefulness of his method was virtually limited to the neuroses and could not yet reach the psyhoses. Experience has shown that it takes countless hours of the most grueling work by a topnotch psychotherapist to bring a "deteriorated" schizophrenic back to something like normal. Even if all U.S. psychiatrists dropped everything else and no more new cases cropped up, most inmates would be dead before a doctor got around to them...