1. Discussion of Dr. Solnit's paper 'Who Deserves Child Psychiatry? A Study in Priorities'
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Eveoleen N. Rexford
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Child Psychiatry ,Mental Health Services ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Psychoanalysis ,Child psychiatrists ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Variety (linguistics) ,United States ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Child Guidance ,Action (philosophy) ,Child, Preschool ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,medicine ,Child and adolescent psychiatry ,Humans ,Community Health Services ,Suspect ,Psychiatry ,business ,Function (engineering) ,Child ,media_common - Abstract
The Program Committee's choice of the three speakers for this Annual Meeting session points up the fact that child psychiatrists have come from a variety of backgrounds and present different interests and opinions yet remain unified in their basic aims, namely, to provide professional help for children who are emotionally ill or likely to become so. I suspect that the Committee's choice reflects as well their hope for a little lively controversy this morning. Dr. Solnit and Dr. Eisenberg were trained in university settings and, as Professors of Child Psychiatry at Yale and Johns Hopkins, have continued their professional activities within the university milieu. Dr. Solnit came into psychiatry as a trained pediatrician; he is further a psychoanalyst of children and adults. His work as clinician, research investigator, teacher, and administrator reflects this wide range of professional preparation. Dr. Eisenberg has pursued an interest in the pediatric and neurological aspects of child psychiatry and of late has become a spokesman for those who believe social action a compelling function of the child psychiatrist. As a facile hard-hitting author and speaker, he has placed his trenchantly developed point of view before many audiences. He makes clear to us today, as always, that he is not a psychoanalyst. Perhaps my reaction when asked to follow Dr. Eisenberg in discussion of Dr. Solnit's paper illustrates nicely his impact upon all of us as a critic and challenger: my first thought as I put down the telephone some months ago was that I'd be a Daniel in Leon's den!
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- 1966