{"id":2388,"date":"2016-09-02T11:19:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T19:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2016-09-02T11:19:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T19:19:25","slug":"surgical-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2388","title":{"rendered":"Surgical Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the ironies of my life is that although I ended up in psychiatry, as a kid I wanted to be a surgeon. I had no idea what was involved. But since I needed surgery (as a kid—and in pretty much cured me), this lovely article in LIFE magazine on February 11, 1946 was fascinating indeed! On page 60 they showed surgical instruments (below) and I was hooked. <\/p>\n

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Alas, I was a bit clumsy and in addition, fascinated in medical school with medical psychology—that\u2019s what they call it in the U.K.—in the USA it\u2019s called \u201cpsych-iatry.\u201d (The suffix "-iatry\u201d suggests that it\u2019s a medical specialty, as different from merely a study of, which is an \u201c-ology.\u201d)<\/p>\n

But near the mid-20th century psychoanalysis (which also includes much psych-ology was at its height. In the last 2 decades of the last century it\u2019s become more medical and medicine oriented) was at its height.<\/p>\n

By the later 1960s and beyond I became more involved with alternative non-psy- choanalytic approaches. This picture, it occurs to me, could also portray symbolic-ally the variety of technical interventions that are involved in psychodrama. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the ironies of my life is that although I ended up in psychiatry, as a kid I wanted to be a surgeon. I had no idea what was involved. But since I needed surgery (as a kid—and in pretty much cured me), this lovely article in LIFE magazine on February 11, 1946 was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-favoritethings","category-psychodrama","category-psychotherapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}