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Psychopathic Terms Said Loosely Used By Medical Men By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York-lTD-T h e terms "psychopathic personal i t y" and "psychopath" are being so loosely used both by med ical men and the public that they're losing any meaning, an English psychiatrist com plained in what may be the start of an international sci entific argument. Psychiatry might as well give up those terms and sub - stitute "sociopath" because . that's what a "psychopath" actually is-some one who dis turbs normal social ways and thereby gets himself into trou ble. ' Dr. Harold Palmer said in a recent lecture to a med ical group. No Menial Disease A "psychopath" has no men' tal disease nor is he mentally deficient, said Palmer. Never theless, he "is seen by others to be more or less perman ently awry and childlike in his behavior, in consequence of which he offends the social ' mores and sooner or later comes into sharp conflict with the established order." Psychiatric science has yet to figure out anything really effective to do for psycho paths although trying to straighten them out in groups rather than individually seems . to help. But they don't seek help from psychiatry; nor do they accept it when it is offered or The Family Council Editor's not: The Fmil? Council consists of it Judge, a psychiatrist, tKree clergymen, a newspaper editor a women's editor and two writers. Each article is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not give advice; it merely reports on problems that hay been dealt with by responsible agencies ana James B My problem is with my wife. We are in our ,,mid-20s and have been mar ried six years. We have a lit- tie girl" of 5 and a baby son. My wife is a good mother - and homemaker, but she wor . ries too much about our lit tle girl. She feels that Susan isn't big and strong enough for her age and can't fight back when other children hit her. My wife has gotten into many fights with our neighbors over Susan. It is . true that some of these neigh l bora don't teach their kids to behave like human beings, but still we are stuck in our apartment here and must get along with these people. I tell Margaret that she's got to begin to let the kid - off on her own. Next year she'll be starting school and won't have Mommy to fight her battles. Margaret R. It's Just be cause Susan will start school next year that I worry now and try to help her while I . can. Susan is very tiny for . her age, although the doctors says that she is in good health and growing nicely. But when she goes to school with all . those big, rough kids she'll be lost if she gets into any sort of fight. Jim doesn't realize how it hurts me to see that Susan won't even try to fight back when she is pushed around. I can't help blowing up and letting some of those neigh bors and their kids have it.- I feel that Jim ought to defend me in these arguments with the neighbors. Instead he starts raging and ranting and blaming me for the whole thing. A real man would fight for his wife. The Council: A woman who constantly gets into fights with her neighbors over the children is a pretty serious problem to herself and the children. ' Margaret must try to recog nize the facts that her con- Adlai Sees Lack of Sufficient Teachers San Francisco -4CPD- Adlai Stevenson, twice Democratic candidate for president, said today he doubted if the Unit ed States would ever again have enough teachers, let alone enough good ones. The former governor of Il linois told the 19th annual convention of the National School Boards association it would be necessary to turn to the new techniques of teach ing by film and television. "And I suspect all teachers nave some vague fear of tech nological unemployment," he said. "The facts are, of course, that these new techniques could be used in every course in the United States without throwing a single teacher out of work." TO GET JUPITER Huntsville, Ala. - (CPD - The Army will present a Jupiter C guided missile to the Smith sonian Institution Jan. 31 to commemorate the first anni versary of the launching of Explorer I, the free world's first earth satellite. forced upon them. "It is the neighbors who complain, and not the deviate himself," Pal mer said. Palmer specifically attack ed the definitions of "psycho pathic personality" approved by the American Psychiatric association. They include "so many diverse varieties, ex tending over such a wide range of inferiorities, insta bilities, and anti-social tend encies as to render the expres sion useless," he said. Disagreeable Traits On the other hand, if you use the term narrowly and arbitrarily you "select such disagreeable traits as the ex citable, the unstable, the im pulsive, the perverse, the quarrelsome, the liar, and the swindler." Yet and beyond question, there are "psychopaths" and psychopathic personalities," he said. "At all times men have rec ognized the existence in their midst of inferior or inade quate folk, some of whom were especially vulnerable to mental disease," he said. "Psychopathic p e r s o nal- ities," in his view, are: Per sons of apparently sound in tellect who show no recog nizable signs of any of the mental diseases and who act as "an irritant to and disrupt society, from which they both extrude themselves and are extruded." counselors. cern about Susan is ill-found ed and the must come to terms with her own emotions if she wants her child to have a chance for a normal life. The doctor says that this little girl is healthy and grow ing normally. T n a t means that she is reasonably well equipped to take care of her self. But her mother takes the least sign of an agressive gest ure as a call to arms. Why? Well, we suspect that Marg aret is the , one who feels small, refenseless and help les against the world. For some reason she is in a panic and feels that she must fight or the world will overwhelm She seeks to draw in her husband as her defender, but so lar ne nas sensioiy re frained from getting involv ed. Margaret should try to be aware of the fact that she has developed a distorted pic ture of things. People are not against here or her child. On the contrary, it is she who looks for fights and manages to develop them out of noth ing. If Margaret finds her self unable to deal with her irrational behavior she should consider the possibility of getting some psychiatric treatment. Her emotional dis order can grow into a fairly serious problem. (Copyright 1959, General Features Corp.) A timid sou! was Henry Lent The meekest man in town. But now his air of confidence Has bathed hint vcitk renown. Travelers insurance advertising in Life, The Satctuuy Evesisg Post, Time and Newsweek told you about this transformation. Henry found the answer in American Family Independence through The Travelers. For your American Family Independence tee . YOUR What Is The This column is prepared as a public service by the College of Law, Willamette University, Salem, to ex plain basic legal principles, not to provide legal advice. The reader is cautioned not to apply these cases to his own problems without an attorney's advice, for dif fering facts may change the outcome. Reason Must Be Used In Defending Another 1 A farmer employed a young man who was related to him by marriage. A neighbor, thinking the young man had told lies about him, hit the young man in the mouth. He threatened to hit him again and was about to do so when the farmer, who had warned the neighbor, struck the neigh bor with the broadside of a pitchfork, breaking his arm. The neighbor then started at the farmer who threatened to stick him with the pitch fork. The neighbor sued the farmer, seeking damages for the injuries suffered. The Kansas court held that the farmer had a right to defend his employee, if he acted rea sonably. In this case, the court felt the farmer had act- j ed reasonably. i Privilage Usually Limited The privilege to defend someone other than yourself has been usually limited to the defense of an employee or a relative in common law. Historically, it was a right arising in feudal times and vesting in the . lord of the manor. Some courts however, have held that even a stranger may be defended, if the circum stances are such that a reason able man would interfere to protect him. In a New York cafe, the band leader, Cab Calloway was fighting with a member of his band. A woman in the audience went to the stage to try and separ ate them and Callaway turn ed and struck her, breaking her nose. She was awarded damages even though she did not know the person who she was attempting to defend. Courts Divided The courts are divided on this question: must it be nec essary to defend or just ap pear necessary? Some courts have taken the position that a person is privileged to use reasonable force even where he is mistaken in his belief that intervention is necessary. Other courts, however, have held that the intermeddler must run the risk that his in tervention is necessary, and that the person he is defend ing would be privileged to defend himself- In Oregon in 1951,' the Su preme Court held that the right to defend others existed if a person can prove that the defense is reasonable under the circumstances. In that case, a young man was attack ed and knocked down. 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