FROM THE FOUNDERS OF CHILD PSYCHIATRY
Autor: | Hyman S. Lippman |
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Rok vydání: | 1963 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Medical education Gratification business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Indoctrination Psychiatry and Mental health Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Child and adolescent psychiatry Medicine Outpatient clinic Social consciousness Meaning (existential) business Function (engineering) Psychiatry Privilege (social inequality) media_common |
Zdroj: | Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry. 2:384-404 |
ISSN: | 0002-7138 |
DOI: | 10.1016/s0002-7138(09)61980-4 |
Popis: | I was pleased when Dr. Helen Beiser asked me to talk to you about my experiences in the field of child psychiatry. It was a pleasant task and allowed me the privilege of describing some of the important experiences that were so meaningful to me. It was difficult to select the few experiences I shall relate to you from the many others which also had much significance and meaning. Most of this material is based on notes which I have kept. In a few instances I had to rely on my memory. Why does one choose child psychiatry as his lifework? What are the sources of gratification that come from helping solve the problems of conflicted children and parents? Is the decision based all where we feel our talents lie? Is it related to the social consciousness of our family? Is it based on unmet emotional needs in our early life? My indoctrination in the emotional aspects of a child's life came from an unexpected source. My first service as a Fellow in Pediatrics was in the Outpatient Department at the University of Minnesota (1920). I noticed that one of the workers, taking notes as she talked to mothers, was not wearing a nurse's uniform. When I asked her about her function in the Outpatient Department she told me that |
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