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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: PILLS FOR THE MIND | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

Techniques for Twitches. Before Landau was flown to the U.S., a blue-eyed pixy named Charles Brook-with a beard remarkably resembling Sigmund Freud's -commuted for weeks between his Har ley Street office and the royal stables outside Newmarket. A psychotherapist who began his professional career as a corporation lawyer, Brook would stride past the sneering unbelievers of shed row with magnificent aplomb and go directly to Landau's stall. There, standing close to his patient's side, he would place his left hand on the colt's withers, his right hand on the smooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Inferiority Complex | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

Secret Weapon. In Edgeware. England, just before a game with nearby Rainham, the town's dejected soccer team took time out for a session with Psychotherapist J. (for Joshua) Sparrow, who gave a "psychological pep-talk" to the players "to bring out their latent ability," succeeded so well that Edgeware won its first victory of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 5, 1953 | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...seeming [to claim] medical qualifications which he does not in fact possess." Suppose, for example, the doctor suggests that some ailment may be psychological in origin. "Oh, Doctor," the patient may reply, "I had no idea that was one of your subjects. I've always wanted a good psychotherapist." Follow up the advantage promptly, urges Potter: "Refuse to take in the doctor's worried assurance that he is not a trained psychiatrist. Make it appear that you are going to tell your friends to come to him for his 'marvelous cures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Patientship | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

...same: Americans were drinking harder than ever. A movieland 1945 Oscar went to the portrayal of a drunk; the book from which the story was taken was a bestseller. In a new sourcebook, Contemporary Criminal Hygiene (240 pp.; Oakridge Press; $4), Psychiatrist Robert V. Seliger of Johns Hopkins and Psychotherapist Victoria Cranford, a coworker, reported that there are 600,000 chronic alcoholics in U.S. institutions and no one knows how many outside; 2,000,000 heavy drinkers; about 38,000,000 "social drinkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alcoholic Illness | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

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