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Show MIRROR Never Buy A Of Your 0 chMs Loye MIND By Lawrence Gould I itij Should you "bribe" a child to kiss you? keep jobs. Thirty-seven out of fifty-six fifty-six patients treated "were salvaged through psychiatry and productively productive-ly employed by war or essential industries." in-dustries." In one case "we kept a schizophrenic man employed for a year after his wife refused the recommended rec-ommended commitment." Answer: Not unless you want to make a little hypocrite of him by teaching him that he can get things he wants by pretending an affection which he does' not feel at the moment, mo-ment, or that he can get you "in his power" by refusing. A child should know that you like him to kiss you when he wants to, but you should no more demand or coax for his love than you should force yours on him. He cannot help loving you because he needs you so much, but the more spontaneous his love remains, the more real and satisfying satisfy-ing it will be to him and to you. Do psychiatrists "go after" patients? Answer: No profession is entirely free from dishonest practitioners, but most reputable psychiatrists and mental hospitals have more patients pa-tients than they know what to do j with and have neither time nor inclination in-clination to try actively to get more. The person who believes that the psychiatrists are "on his trail" and will "put him away" if he is not careful is probably suffering from delusions of persecution. He is secretly se-cretly afraid that a psychiatrist might unmask him to himself and force him to give up the false notions no-tions about himself and his neighbors neigh-bors which unconsciously are such a comfort to him. Can psychiatry make fewer "unemployables"? Answer: Yes, says Dr. Robert V. Seliger of the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Psy-chiatric Clinic, Baltimore. The experience ex-perience of the Clinic during World War II showed that in a time of manpower shortage, short-term psychiatric psy-chiatric treatment could enable men and women who would normally be considered unemployable to get and |