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By Jacques Kelly | June 3, 2008
Dr. Joseph Stephens, a retired Johns Hopkins psychiatrist who was an accomplished harpsichord player, died of stroke complications Thursday at the BluePoint Nursing Center. The Bolton Hill resident was 81. Born in Frederick, where he was raised, he was the son of a violin-playing father who had a dance band, played in a Frederick symphony ensemble and was a member of a string quartet. As a young man, Dr. Stephens played the organ at local churches and on radio shows broadcast live from the Tivoli Theater, where he played a Wurlitzer organ.
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By Jacques Kelly | May 31, 2008
Dr. Theodore M. Feldberg, a retired psychiatrist who was an early advocate and teacher of patient group therapy, died of cardiovascular disease May 23 at his Cross Keys home. He was 88. Born in Newark, N.J., he earned a bachelor's degree at Drew University and initially studied at the New York and Richmond schools of social work. From 1942 to 1946, he served in the Army as a clinical psychologist and social worker. He then moved to Baltimore and earned a degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he also did his internship and residency in psychiatry.
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By Dennis O'Brien | October 3, 2007
Assuring parents that that current medications are safe and effective, two major psychiatric organizations issued yesterday detailed treatment guidelines for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder - a condition that affects up to 4 million children nationwide. Authors said the guidelines - including tips on spotting symptoms, a list of treatment options and details of medication side effects - are designed to dispel myths about the disorder and to help parents make sure that their children get the best available treatments.
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By Scott Calvert | September 10, 2007
GULU, Uganda -- As an 11-year-old, Alfred Odida did awful things. He killed people with machetes, he abused the dead. He says he had no choice. The rebels who abducted him forced the young boy to commit atrocities, as they have thousands of children during northern Uganda's long civil war. Now 18 and safe, he sat with a psychiatrist recently to discuss his lingering mental trauma, such as the haunting visions he has of victims coming back for revenge....
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By Chris Kaltenbach | April 15, 2007
PHILADELPHIA Few were surprised when Halle Berry was named 2004's Worst Actress at the Razzie Awards, an annual lambasting of the year's worst films held the night before the Oscars. But what happened after her "win" for playing the title character in Catwoman surprised nearly everyone. "Ladies and gentlemen," Razzies founder John Wilson intoned from the stage of Hollywood's Ivar Theatre, "Halle Berry." When Berry herself appeared, wearing a Cheshire-cat grin on her face, the Oscar she'd won for 2001's Monster's Ball in her left hand and the Razzie in her right, the audience gave her a standing ovation.
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By Jennifer McMenamin | March 7, 2007
Attorneys representing a former death row inmate whose sentence was overturned asked a judge yesterday to keep out of next month's capital sentencing hearing the statements of a psychiatrist who previously testified that the convicted killer said "a voice" told him to kill his girlfriend's 8-year-old daughter. Dr. Gregory Fey, a psychiatrist hired by prosecutors to evaluate Jamaal K. Abeokuto, testified at Abeokuto's first sentencing hearing in November 2004 that the Baltimore man said the voice provided four reasons for him to kill Marciana Ringo.
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November 17, 2006
Dr. William M. Goldstein, a psychiatrist who taught and wrote about his field, died of cancer yesterday at his Rockville home. He was 63. Born in Baltimore and raised in the Howard Park neighborhood, he was a 1960 graduate of City College and earned a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College in Ohio. He was a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Goldstein, who practiced in Chevy Chase for many years, joined the faculty of Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1975 and taught its psychiatric residents the principles of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
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By Chris Emery and Dennis O'Brien | September 8, 2006
The killing this week of Rockville psychiatrist Dr. Wayne S. Fenton served as a grim reminder of the rare but serious dangers of treating the severely mentally ill. "It's not common, but there is always a risk," said Dr. Steven Sharfstein, a psychiatrist and the president and chief executive of Sheppard Pratt Health System in Towson. Montgomery County police say Fenton, 53, was beaten to death in his Bethesda office Sunday by a 19-year-old patient. The man attacked Fenton during an appointment, police said in a statement.
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By JUDY FOREMAN | June 30, 2006
Like many young mothers, Sophie Currier is a busy woman. There's all the family stuff at the Brookline, Mass., home she shares with her partner, Jeremie Gallien, and their 7-month-old son, Theo. There's work - a teaching assistantship for a biochemistry course at Harvard University. And there's school. After majoring in biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Currier got a doctorate in neuroscience from Harvard and is on track to get her medical degree in a year. The striking thing is that Currier does all this not only with severe dyslexia - she couldn't read until she was 8 - but with ADHD, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, as well.
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August 22, 2005
Dr. Kay Robinson Cutler, a World War II veteran and a psychiatrist, died of undetermined causes Thursday at his home in Phoenix, Baltimore County. He was 84 and had suffered a stroke four years ago. Born in Idaho, he spent his childhood in Salt Lake City before joining the Army Air Forces in 1942. He served as a pilot in World War II and spent nine months as a prisoner of war in Germany, according to his son Kimball Cutler of Freeville, N.Y. Mr. Cutler married Wyona Barney in 1947, and in 1950 he received a medical degree from the University of Utah.