Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unofficial Therapists. To determine the rewards of friendship, Wright asked 60 male and female university undergraduates to define what they understood by a "close friend" and a "friend." In defining close friends, Wright found, "there was an emphasis upon self-disclosure -i.e., upon someone to whom it is possible to unburden one's most secret thoughts." Sixty percent of the males and 82% of the females drew this distinction. Wright interprets it to mean that each human carefully nominates a few companions "in the more intimate role of unofficial therapist. Perhaps friends are more important for mental health than...
...give a deposition in San Francisco, Psychiatrist Joseph Lifschutz did not hesitate to comply. But when he was asked to testify about his treatment of Joseph Housek, a former patient, Lifschutz demurred. The law, he declared, should not force him to betray even the existence of a patient-therapist relationship, much less what it involved. As a result, Lifschutz was ultimately found in contempt of court and sentenced to jail until he agreed to answer...
...necessary, the black therapist also redefines mental illness. "There are some behavior patterns that one could call pathological," says Charles Wilkinson, a black psychiatrist and executive director of the Kansas City Mental Health Foundation. "But it's a question whether they are really pathological or simply adaptive. If judged by the majority of the prevailing culture, they could be called pathological. But from the black person's standpoint, they have been patterns he has had to use to make it." It is scarcely paranoid, for instance, for the black to distrust and fear the white society. Says...
...their ability to find positive and useful ways of living with the severe stresses imposed by their environment. "I don't know why they aren't crazier than they are," says Dr. Hugh F. Butts, a black psychiatrist from Manhattan. Dr. Robert Sharpley of Boston, a black therapist whose practice includes a number of black students from Harvard, feels that the black capacity to survive against huge odds deserves more attention than it has received. He speculates that the kind of solidarity so often found in oppressed minorities may "give the blacks a feeling of protection and support...
Like Tarzan. Two black militants were killed when their car was blasted to bits while they were riding on a highway south of Bel Air, Md. The dead were Ralph Featherstone, 30, and William ("Che") Payne, 26. Featherstone, a former speech therapist, was well known as a civil rights field organizer and, more recently, as manager of the Afro-American bookstore, the Drum & Spear, in Washington. Both were friends of H. Rap Brown, whose trial on charges of arson and incitement to riot was scheduled to begin last week in Bel Air. Reconstruction of the car's speedometer indicates...