-FEBRUARY 15, 1973 GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY SIGNAL rAGE 3 Harvard Psychiatrist URGENT NANA WAS A GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY SOPHOMORE IN SPRING SEMESTER '71 AND Pouissant Claims Blacks HOPING TO GRADUATE AROUND MAY '73 IF YOU KNOW HER PLEASE HAVE NANA Fear Psychiatric Help Contact Joe Of Phila By GLADYS HAMMO DS Georgia State Univer ity last shrewd is called a sociopath, but a Thursday. wauStreer-broker who displayed LACKHOVE HALL "Black people are afraid of Dr. Poussain t, who i an the ame qualities is lauded as an psychiatry," announced Dr. Alvin SHIPPENSBURG STATE COLLEGE a sociate profe sor of psych iatry example of success. "One is Poussaint, a black psychiatrist legitimized, the other isn't." SHIPPENSBURG, PA. 17257 at Harvard Medical School, who ha written over S4 books poke on the relationship between There is a political meaning in and article, in a lecture at blacks and psychiatry as a part of standard 1.0. t e ts on which GSU' Bla k History Week ac- black score lower than whites by tiviue . an average of IS points, and in He added, "black have come research that purports to lay the Vincent Canoy of the New York Times says: 10 view p ychiatry in many of the blame for the difference on arne ways they view policemen." genetic inferiority, he asserted. Distrust of p ych iatr i t by Such research i "constantly "THE BEST AND THE MOST ORIGINAL giving ammunition to the forces blacks is because black have u ually come into contact with a of rea non." psychratrist only as a person who Dr. Poussaint told the audience AMERICAN COMEDY OF 1972. "a lot of 1.0. test are based on sign the paper to commit them into men ra I institutions, he e • education and collection of in- plained. formation in tead of how As ~tartling in its way People are conditioned to naturally bright the kid IS." thinking that "p ychiatry IS a He de ribed a judgement te t science, that It IS objective, that it' In which hildren were asked as was 'The Graduate~" free from bias," but "that' just not what they would do if they were so," he said. sent to the tore for a loaf of bread and found the store c10 d. Black Bi The correct an wer is supposed to "One of the "The funniest The nature of p y hiatry i that be that the child would go to "there are inherent biase ,. in the another tore, year's best film of the tandards u ed to judge normal Black children tended to say human behavior, he explained. they would return home. When films~' year~' A a result, the "norm and the researchers a ked them why they standards tend to be white middle answered a they did, the -Newsweek -Paul Ringe, class standards in this country," children often gave explanations -New Yorker Circus Magazine in which "blacks are always being as simple as their parents disliked -N.Y. Times seen as deficient." them wandering around the A black running numbers in the neighborhood or that there was ghetto who is manipulative, and only one store on their block. Cultural biases based on white LOSE 20 POUNDS middle class norms "get carried "Best .' hlJlt-.. "Best over into clinical situations as IN TWO WEEKS! well," Dr Pou saint explained. supporting supporting As a result, white psychiatrists, Famuus u.s. Wumrn Ski Tram Din who may go through their entire academic training without coming actress, actor, During the non- now off season the U.S. Women' Alpine Ski Team into contact with a black patient, memben go on the '"Ski Team" diet are often not ompetent to treat Jeannie Eddie to lose 20 pound in two week . blacks. That' right 20 pound in 14 day! Meal.1 Heallh Berlin~' Albert~' The ba i of the diet I chemical food Mental h alth problems among action and wa devised by a f mous black p ople are inerea ingdespite Colorado phy ician e peciaUy for the -National Society -National Society apparent racial progre ,becau U.S. Ski Team. onnal energy is of Film Critics of Film Critics people at the bottom of the socio- maintained (very important!) while conom ic ladder are still suf- / reducing. You keep "full" no tarvation - because the diet ide- fering:' "In all the indice we have / the situation is getting worse." :- igned that way! It's a diet that i easy to follow whether you work. In cine , the black male SUicide F" travel or stay at home. rate, formerly only one half that -This is, honestly, a fantastically of white males, is beginning to successful diet. If it weren't, the U.S. outstrip the rate for white males, Women's Ski Team wouldn't be per- while the life expectancy for black F mitted to use itl Right? So, give yourself the same break the' U.S. Ski males decreased an entire year in Team. gets. Lose weight the scientific. the decade between 1960 and proven way. Even it you've tried all 1970. However, black women the other diets, you owe it to your- have the lowest SUicide rate in the If to try the U.S. W()ft'Ien'~ Ski country. Team Diet. That is, if you really do Dr. Poussaint had harsh words want to lose 20 pounds in two weeks. about current black movies that rder today. Tear this out as a tend to portray violence as minder Send only $2.00 ($2.25 for Rush glamorous and teach miscon- rviee) - cash is O.K. - to lnfor- ceptions. Movies in the past ation Sources Co., P.O. Box 982, taught people to cheer Indians pt. ST, Carpinteria, Calif. 93013. being slaughtered by cowboys, he on't order unle s you expect to lose said, and "we learned from the Palomar Pictures Internahonel ~'Il~nt~ o pounds in two weeks! Because movies about the fact that NeilSimon's ~ hat's what the Ski Team Diet will do! Africans were savages." The Heartbreak Kid An Elaine May Film It's the Starring Charles Grodin 'Cybill Shepherd as "Kelly'"Jeannie Berlin Audra Lindley and Eddie Albert· From a story by Bruce lay Fnedman' Screenplay by Ned Simon real thing. Produced by Edgar I. Schenck· DIrected by Elaine May .PRINTS BY DELUXE· IPGI<c' 0''''"'' MOM"""'"' 'O'"O,"~' ... ".." 0' OX",'" '"0'0' Coke.1" ••. to.•• \: Gti)• SEE rr AT 2:30, 4:15,':05, ':00, ':55 P.ll. • SPECIAl LATESHOWAllDAYANDSATURDAYAT 11:. • WEISCInEmA , AtIMl.'. Most 8HUIlfu1- ~ .. IIeIMlI ....., ........, ....... ~ c....., lit Psscllt_.t 1311I. 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