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Some students in the psychiatrist’s care “never felt better” than they did when they were demonstrating.
• The majority of college students stage protests on
and off the campus mainly because of the stress
brought on by three major factors: mistrust of
adults, academic pressures and the prospect of mili
tary service. Psychiatrists, who have found that a
patient will join a protest movement after failure
in school or rejection by a friend, have also noted
that there is a sharp reduction of student admis
sions to psychiatric clinics during periods of cam
pus-wide controversy. This was especially so during
the violent protests at the University of California.
Dr. Seymour L. Halleck, who is with the psychi-
• Why do people fear the dentist ?
Anxiety about pain, anxiety about
mutilation and, among the less-well
informed, even an anxiety about
death are the underlying reasons
why many people put off going to
the dentist.
Analyzing such anxieties in ‘‘Den
tal Survey," Dr. Norman C. Boures
tom, director of Psychological Serv
ices of the American Rehabilitation
Foundation, said: "Fear of pain is a
phenomenon familiar to dentists, and
is the factor primarily responsible
for widespread use of analgesic and
sedative drugs, even in relatively
minor dental procedures . . . The
problem of abnormal anxiety plus
pain can be difficult to control.”
Dr. Bourestom said fear of mu
tilation is caused by the anxious
patient who wants to avoid any
physical alteration or deprivation
that would make him look and feel
different, or that would interfere
with his desire to lead a normal life.
"Such fears," said Dr. Bourestom,
"might arise particularly where the
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atric department at the University of Wisconsin,
writes in the IBM publication, "Think”: "During a
massive protest of the draft (at Wisconsin) which
resulted in a sit-in, three of my patients canceled
their therapy hours. In each case they remarked
that psychotherapy seemed meaningless when there
were so many important things to do. Although each
patient was exhausted from hours of picketing, each
claimed he had never felt better. When the sit-in
collapsed, their symptoms quickly returned.”
However, Dr. Halleck warned that it is a “dan
gerous half-truth" to dismiss the protests on the
patient needs to have all or most of
his teeth removed. Since teeth are
prized possessions of the body and
since not having them is reminiscent
of the infantile stage of develop
ment, such a patient may not only
display a high level of anxiety be
fore the work is done, but actually
exhibit a great deal of regressive
behavior afterwards."
The image of a dentist also con
jures up a picture of fear in the pa
tient who knows he needs dental
care but keeps putting it off. "In
many respects," Dr. Bourestom said,
"the dentist’s office resembles a
hospital operating room; white uni
forms are commonly worn, sterile
procedures are employed, anesthet
ics are used and the dentist’s instru
ments are not unlike those of the
surgeon."
Faced with all this, It is no won
der that one patient always feels like
she must be given novocaine in or
der to take novocaine in her den
tist's chair.
Most wives, apparently, enjoy sex
more the longer they are married,
while husbands appear to develop
problems of sexual adjustment.
These are the conclusions made by
Robert R. Bell, a psychology pro
fessor at Temple University, Phila
delphia, Pa., after a study of 196
college educated women who were
married 10 years or less.
Professor Bell, in making his re
port to a meeting of physicians who
act as family counselors, said that
the results of the survey reflect the
growing liberalizing of educated
American women's attitudes about
sex. He also told the doctors that
' they can expect to see more women
patients who complain that their
husbands are not meeting their sex
needs. He added that the doctors
will also see many male patients
who are distressed because their
wives have made them feel sexually
inadequate.
Most of the women In the study
felt that their own and their hus-
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• Does length of marriage affect sex interest ?
Sat. and Sin., Feb. 3-4, 1966
grounds that the students protest primarily to sat
isfy emotional needs.
"Os course students derive a certain amount of
pleasure from any kind of activism,” he said, "but
this is not the only reason they protest. The feeling
of psychological well-being that goes along with
any kind of active effort to alter the environment
is such an obvious and well-established fact it should
not be belabored.
"The most useful approach to understanding pro
test behavior is to examine those stresses or forces
in a person’s life which lead him to take action ...’’
bands’ sexual adjustment was good.
However, the length of the marriage
appeared to have a bearing on the
wives’ estimation of the adjustment
made by the husbands. Os those
who had been married three years
or less, just 14% considered their
husbands were unhappy sexually;
30% of the wives in the study who
were married seven to ten years
felt their husbands were bothered
by problems of sexual adjustment.
"As length of marriage increases,”
said Prof. Bell, “the sexual aspects
of marriage often become more real
istically defined and natural for the
wife." He added, that as the years
go by, the husband may become
more preoccupied with his career
and less Interested in his wife.
"While this is an !’• -nic switch
from the patriarchal .st," said
Prof. Bell, "the results may be far
more serious for the sexually inade
quate or uninterested male than
they were for the personally unful
filled female of the past.**