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Show Doctor analyzes abortion therapeutic abortions but he also advocated legislation requiring post-abortion psychiatric treatment. treat-ment. He maintains that the abortion abor-tion was the main cause of mental distress in all the women who had had abortions just prior to seeking psychiatric help from him. Dr. Calef is a former member of the Child's Guidance Clinic in San Francisco and has worked in psychiatry of children and their parents for some 24 years. "Abortion itself is a potential source of psychiatric illness and a basis for mental breakdown," said Dr. Vitor Calef, an associate chief at the Mt. Sinai Clinic in San Francisco, at a recent seminar of psychiatry students and faculty. For this reason, he continued, "There should be no psychiatric grounds for abortion. There are only two kinds of women who i would not be bothered by an abortion - a woman already severely disturbed mentally, and a woman completely free of psychiatric symptons." Dr. Calef added that he had never met anyone free of psychiatric symptoms. Dr. Calef believes in some |