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. . . Magnifying a small portion of TIME'S version of Dr. Leo Kanner's report on "Frosted Children" [TIME, April 26], L. B. Martin suggests that through their efforts to achieve a scientific understanding of human behavior, psychologists and psychiatrists must deny the importance of affection and emotional expression in mental health, and that this denial would necessarily be reflected in their own children [TIME, Letters, May 17]. Nothing could be farther from the truth. As clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists try to help their clients understand their emotions, and to learn to express them in normally acceptable ways in daily living. As parents, psychologists and psychiatrists could hardly be expected to refute their professional beliefs and produce the "frosted children" Mrs. Martin expects . . .
Kanner's point is well taken, and jibes with current views on the effects of emotional barrenness often found in homes where parents are too busy or too uninterested to devote time and affection to children . . .
T. R. VALLANCE
Asst. Professor of Psychology
R. S. FELDMAN
Instructor in Psychology University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mass.
Arcaro Up
Sir:
FOR THE THOROUGHBRED CLUB OF AMERICA, THANK YOU FOR YOUR FAIR AND OBJECTIVE REPORTING OF THE AMERICAN RACING SCENE 1948 IN THE ARCARO COVER STORY [TIME, MAY 17].
E. E. D. SHAFFER President
Thoroughbred Club of America Lexington, Ky.
Sir:
. . . The Arcaro story . . . had interest, authority, understanding and color ... It was a thoroughly good job.
HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE New York City
Sir:
I am now convinced that TIME is psychic. The mutuel ticket on the cover showed the winner of the Preakness (No. 4) before the post positions were even drawn . . .
LLOYD M. ST. OURS
Baltimore, Md.
Harlem Report [Cont'd]
Sir:
TIME had no need to apologize to Superintendent of Schools Jansen for its report on Harlem [TIME, May 17]. Eight years before his ". . . two-year-project to reduce delinquency in Harlem," I established a psychiatric clinic at P.S. 89, in deep Harlem, under the sponsorship of the boss of the Truant Officers, George Chatfield. My final report, after two years of zealous effort, is so close to your April 5th [review of] the present Harlem Report, that I shall spare you the actual comparisons. And this was six years before Jansen's special pleading that Harlem gangs "mimicked on the streets the warfare their older brothers were waging in Europe and in the Pacific."
EDWARD E. HARKAVY, M.D. New York City
Sir: