Snapshot: The psychiatrist …

[The psychiatrist and terrorism].

The Responsibility of the Psychiatrist

human relationships, delinquency and the like, date essentially from World War II. Amongst the many valuable lessons learnt by the service psychiatrist during those war years, perhaps the two hardest for him to accept were the dangers of "over-selling" psychiatry; and his role with, and responsibility towards, not only his patient but also the community of which the patient, and the psychiatris...

The Monks and the Psychiatrist

Benedictine prior Father Gregoire Lemercier thought he was going mad. So he called in a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist soon sorted him out. Father Lemercier was most impressed. He considered that the benefits of Freudian analysis should be bestowed upon the other monks. called in a woman psychiatrist, Professor Frida Zmud, to 'confront monks with the problems of sexuality'. *he group therapy se...

Should the psychiatrist be hospitalized?

E’VE been seeing the patient regularly for the past five years. For the sake of W anonymity, we will call him Psi. His problem as initially presented to us was a chronic inability to use his full potential in his work. Particularly, he showed an inability to learn by his past mistakes. He would make the same errors time and time again. It appeared that he couldn’t remember what caused him to be...

The psychiatrist and political dissidents.

Healthy dissidence is part of the stuff of politics but when does health break down into ill health and how does that ill health manifest itself? In violence, street riots, anarchism, terrorism, revolution, civil war, or in forms of deviant thought and behavior that may be regarded as manifestations of mental illness? The term dissenter came into being in 1639 to describe individuals who separa...