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(The following is from an address being this week at the American college Health Association's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., by Stanley H. King, director of research at UHS. The slides are not included.)
Perhaps the greatest problem that the Psychiatric Service will face in coming years is the ability to communicate with the wide variety of students who go to Harvard. The most common complaint among students who have rejected the counseling they found at UHS is that it is narrow minded. Although...
Many of these students are not "far-out heads" but perfectly normal people who have a different value orientation from the doctors they meet at UHS. And it is not only drugs which separate these students from their doctors--many have ideological and moral differences which cut them off from...
As a result most of these students either don't go to UHS or else quickly abandon the psychiatrist they have been assigned. Some of these students--popularly considered the alienated fringe but probably closer to the norm at Harvard than elsewhere--find sympathetic listeners in the Soc Rel Department...
If UHS psychiatrists are going to cater to all of Harvard, they will have to learn to be more open minded; they will have to make their definition of sickness a little more elastic. They will, in effect, have to become a little more hip