Psychiatry Without Jargon
‘HE series The Foundations of Mental Health, which has recently con- | cluded from 1YC. seemed to me té con: tain an excellent amount of cémfion sense, a8 well a8 to preset some of the more itmportant findings of modérn psychiatry in language refteshifigly free from jargof. The anonymous psychiatrist who was intérviewed throughout was careful to separate speculations from experimentally established facts, and to define each technical term. I thought that the sessioris 6n parent-child relationships were particulatly good, not so much because 6f any new toricepts they offered, as fot their systematic justification of what instinct tedches the responsible parent. Howéver, the presentation left a little to be desired. The interviewer, whom I gtés from his voice to be Arnold Wall, asked his questions naturally atid apparently spontaneously, while thé psychiatrist himself was only too obviously readitig, and thus gave sometimes an impression ii
of pedantry and pomposity which contrasted with the untechnical and down-to-@arth fiature of his commente
J.C.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 10
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165Psychiatry Without Jargon New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 10
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