Students’ Mental Health
Sir, —In reply to Varian J. Wilson, my concern as an abecedarian was to query an assertion that psychiatry has no reliable tests or procedures for the legally sane. He corrected himself. Impersonal opinion that psychology clQuds psychiatry need not be interpreted as private challenge. Psychology seems moribundly based on hearsay evidence. I am entitled to an opinion that exact science is best for mental disorder. Like fingerprints, no two personalities are the same, and attempts by psychologists to cut millions of them, past and present, all different, into set patterns seem to me retrogressive, and a burbling waste of time in whatever field of human activity they plan to influence. —Yours, etc., A. B. CEDARIAN. December 9, 1966. [This correspondence is now closed.—Ed., “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31239, 10 December 1966, Page 14
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129Students’ Mental Health Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31239, 10 December 1966, Page 14
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