Show MARY MARY H HAW HAWORTH'S RTH'S MAIL MAILI r I Reader I Criticizes Stress Given to Mental Disorders Dear De Mary Haworth For or Petes Pete's Pete s sake stop reading books bookson on psychiatry and nd rule mother and get back to the commonsense commonsense common- common sense answers i you used to give us in the old days In o one e of your columns you reviewed the ca case e of oJa a foreign- foreign born mother whose two sons now in tn the have taken to scorning parental authority and staying out all hours of the night since the younger younger boy hoy came home from the army army 18 18 months ago and induced his older brother formerly a amodel amodel amodel model son son to to join join him him in run run- running nin ning wild You say asay to this mother T The e situation means means' that your sons are struggling blindly t to be become men no rio 1 longer nger puppets on your api apron tt strings They are ah show showing showing wing w- w ing the ill tU effects of too too much mother rule In in e early years years That gives me a laugh When cn boys or young m men as stay Ly out ut every night until 3 lan am a.m. ani on on the she do doth do do- average average u average as says says' they th they y Old Ned And when they r reject j ct moms mom's advice that's perfectly normal Its It's It pret pretty y evide evident t that her bossing as you call it is having no effect whatever What this thin mom should I do is start charging her sons a good stiff price for their room and b board ard and nd if it they dont don't like it tell them to get out and find som somebody b dy else to sponge on Perhaps one one In ten of your cases needs or would be helped by a aa good psychiatrist B But tto to I judge judg by your te recent ent couns counsel l it seems seems ii equally any probable that you are are so 80 befuddled by psychIatric psychiatric psychiatric lore that you cant can't c nt see seethe seethe the f forest rest for the tre trees P. P P. P Against t Learning Dear P. P P. P Where Ignorance is bliss bUss folly to be wise s Such I I. infer is y your ur latent attitude attitude attitude at at- toward learning which has its laborious and disturbing aspects You hazard the guess that perhaps perhaps' one ne In ten of my petitioners peti petitioners stands In need of ot psychiatric psychiatric psychiatric help But Id I'd put the figure re much higher than that nearer ea r 70 0 per cent of the total To indicate the rising tide of neurotic disorders in the human family may I quote from a re recent recent re- re cent article by Dr Thomas Parran Parran Parran Par- Par ran surgeon general United States public health service One out of every ten every ten Americans Ameri Amerl- Americans cans cans cans' who reads these words worda will sooner sooner or later need t the e help of a psychiatrist And one out of Ot every 20 will spend some part of his life in hi a mental ment l 1 hospital lW l. l W When we went to war we the fittest fittest fit fit- drew presumably upon test members of our society society to todo to todo do dos the fighting job Yet according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to Maj Gen Lewis B B. Hershey draftees were rejected for mental a and d personality personality personality person person- person person- disorders And in spite of ot selective service ce screening about 40 0 per cent of all men given medical discharges were declared unfit for service because because be be- cause of ot Borne some mental mental- or emotional emo emotional emotional disorder Is that enough to show which way the wind blows Now a further word of ot explanation for formy formy formy my recent shift to more emphasis sis upon psychiatric counsel In Inthe Inthe the th old days day to which you refer I had more more column space at my disposal than since the war war-m war made de' de newsprint squeeze eze Hence I could do a more substantial sub sub- substantial sub aube job of analysis and exposition exposition ex ex- ex- ex position in yesteryear Now when confronted with a critical complicated case conscience compels me to refer the plaintiff to someone who can give him lengthier treatment See MH M. M H. H Mary H Haworth a w o a r t th h counsels through her column not by mail mailor or personal interview lew Write h her In n care of The s Salt Lake Telegram |