Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...That Stuff." This is the gruesome world of Tomboy, a novel with the stiff and one-dimensional authenticity of a social worker's report. Every incident in the book, says Author Ellson, is true, based on material he collected while working as a "recreational therapist" with young delinquents in New York City...
Miniature Mobsters. Despite its fascinating subject, Tomboy is no great shakes as a novel. Its surface action is credible enough, but when Therapist-Novelist Ellson tries to explain what makes his little hoodlums run, he is much too pat and predictable. Unlike such other slum novelists as James T. Farrell (Studs Lonigan) and Nelson Algren (The Man with the Golden Arm), he lacks the gift for individualizing his miniature mobsters and thereby arousing sympathy for them. The chances are that Ellson, who is a better reporter than novelist, would have done just as well to turn his notes into...
...Boston Psychopathic Hospital, they work under the direction of the occupational therapist in charge of each ward. Most often the girls play cards or ping pong with the patients or direct them in making crayon drawings. The greatest benefit the patient derives from these activities is not from the occupation itself, but rather from the knowledge that an "outsider" is interested in his happiness...