Sunday, February 24, 1957 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pnne Ninms d, u 4 7I N Yg THE EMOTIONAL PROBLE Mental Medicine Men Are Giving Their Advice to Worried Students By JAMES ELSMIAN There is some overlap between Hygiene every year, Prof. Van upon individualism in today's so- SefSoluton Taily Saff writer the functions of the Division and Duren revealed. He reported his ciety. People are becoming less ONE wonders, when surveying those of Mental Hygiene, although office was short-staffed because of able to make up their own minds WHERE DOES the worried in- the many counseling facilities a student who "shows symptoms dividual turn but to scientists of physical or psychological it- space limitations. and resolve their own mental ill- for students on this campus, if i ness" is usually referred to Mental Prof. Van Duren defines the nesses. Admittedly psychiatrists of the mind to help him resolve students aren't becoming excess- function of his staff as "seeing his fabricated problems. He seeks iety rent on "scientists imnd fungand mental counselors are needed specialists'' to make their dcisionscthet a udent has motivation for to care for the few in society who a crutch never realizing that at and resolve their emotional prob- have serious mental illnesses, but lat anyeal ores agirary liss pwt i oainldsr. e problem insst be resolved in hs e'.cause 00 percent of the entering it is hard to escape the conclusion: own mind. Psychiatrists at the Mental Hs- freshmen change their vocational that many people are getting Prof. Van Duren lends his many giene Unit of Health Service, psy- directions before they graduate, mental counseling who don't need years of counseling, students to chologists at the Student Counsel- the counselors are booked solid. it. This isn't toe fault of the summing up the situation: "Stu- mg division of Rackham Hall No' other counseling unit oln mental "scientists" who have res- dents reflect the mores of the relicious adsvisris t Lane Halt, campus handles as many students ponded to a demand. times, constantly thinking they academic counselors, and residence ms the above three. C. Grey Austin, tt is the fault of today's Ian- need assistance in solving their halt stall ersiimnne1 are over- program assistant at Lane Hall, guid individual. He lacks mental problems. They don't have the worked, attempting to resoe p- reported no waitmn list for the self-sufficiency and is the puppet desire 'o work them out them- chotogica trobemss students can- Hail's four counselors and that of the power of suggestion. Every selves, but the solution rests fin- not solve themselves. oonly six students visit the counsel- time he reads about--and even ally in their hands." Arthur Van Duren chairman of ors regularly ,Life Magazine has given him com- It seems that in today's Amer- the freshman and sophomore fac- moon currency--mental abnormali- ica, while over 90 per cent pro- ulty counselors. is convinced s pPyof. Elton . McNeil of tent and ties, he immediately gives himself fess a belief in God, people are rn emon"abiit and member of Ann Arbem Panity an mitospetive psyciatmic ex- metying less on Him for guidance a mination. in solving their problems, more ineecision ever ince the post-war Sire mdets ee ie area His conclusion is that he is af- on the scientific methods of tmsdcisan c rsine th pot or - where students receive counel- veterans' bulge." ing. iThe Service, a Community flicted with every mal-function- mental doctors. Indeed, contem- Heightened University concern Chest social case agency, does 12 ing in the nornenclatume of psy- porary people seem much less in- with the eflectiveness of the coum- per cent of its interviewing with chiatry. This is something like tent on committing their lives to seting program was exhibited reprthe occupational disease of medi- the will of God and more intent cently tshen James A. Lewis. vice- marle student Heeked at students, who often conmince on "taking thought for the mor- presidenttofostudenttdffnairs. a ntathemselves of having fifteen or row," charting their lives by psy- prsdmto udn l i pcounseimg from local psychiaitristsh Iminted a committee to consider and analysts. twenty diseases before they fin- chological aptitude tests and the the present status of the counsel ish school. advice of mental scientists. ing system and recommend changes if they are needed." David No Proofs W. Baad, assistant to the dean of H INCREASED number of THEINRAE nubro men and executive secretary of the , students seeking psychological Counseling Committee, said results A '- counseling was explained by Prof. of a questionnaire sent to 1,270 - McNeil this way: "Our culture, students would be made public because of a freer dtscussion of within tawo weks. mental illness recently, is aware of the existence of emotional dis-- The Long Wait . . . THE THINKER turbances, and we know how pro-!a ... a roe inlife fessional counseing can be help- oNE thing common to the three e no role e life ul." most important counseing untsHygiene. The Division takes a role He said that, although there dnt Cousengnd c H em Stu-in vocational plannmig as s has been speculation about it, dent Counseling, and aadmic er prob s of pychological psychooists have not yet design- advisers-is a waiting list. growth and development ed a way of proving people are Dr. Theophile Raphael, a Men- becoming crazier. tal Hygiene psychiatrist said the Lieeiia U ' *Thus, we have a situation where staff of two psychiatrists and eight; ]) "** tdet ""ti'cmpsan Im ed c oins'lrs - HE acaemc otisetngstudents on this campus and "specially tranedAcounlors" T THE academic counselng people i general are flocking to wooiking esoterically in office 218 offices for freshmen and sopho- queue up m waiting lines outside is "not lare enouih" to nu't the mores, more than 100 students are psychiatrists' doors. student demand. Dr. Rahail de- referred to the dis sion and Mental This situation is a reflection scribed Mental Hvgiene's w-ak --- "more climieal" than any otheriK performe d on campus The psychiatiist repor tedsoi is you've never really seen your color slides