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January 31,1974A Professionals Professional?Continued from page 5 people who pay seem deter-on campus strangely didn’t mined to profit from the experi-seem to be invited.) A big sign ence.at the door of 300 HSW greet- And it’s objective and scien-ed the crowd directing those tific, too. Est is right now who came without invitations trying to document its success to an overflow room where a through psychological and TV crew (working late) was physiological testing done by going to televise it. 300HSW professionals, of course, never filled up — but almost. The crowd was getting antsy. Was it just curiosity orthal Some people wandered out. glimmering hope? One student began reading aDr. Julius Krevans, dean of textbook, another a good sci-the School of Medicine, intro- ence fiction story. Feelings of duced the famous speaker, hostility began to permeate the thanking him for accepting his room as some students ques-invitation to come. A sort of tioned his premises (maybe life youngish, sort of stylish tall does work, sometimes at least) man with wide-open eyes and his delivery system (it’s jumped up. So this was Werner discriminatory).Erhard! The audience quieted Afterwards, one studentas he began to speak — his commented, “What a Madison commanding voice negating Ave. slick job. A new drug — the need for a microphone. the happiness pill.” Another Life doesn’t work. It’s that concluded “It’s like the Emper-simple. (Or is it?) All good or’s new clothes ...” ideas (even me and you) turn But what is est anyway?into problems whose solutions Despite the promotion during beget new problems ad infini- class time, despite the circular turn. But wait! There is yet a and the tickets and the televi-solution to our problems that is sion crews (who paid for their itself not a problem: est. overtime?), despite the Dean’s Through est one learns to par- sponsoring forward, what est ticipate in life totally differently is really about and how it could than before — to become a help doctors communicate bet-pure experiencer which then ter with patients and with each allows one to dissolve away other was never explained. In problems and solutions until the evasive style of a true pro-the good ideas all come back, fessional, Erhard only hinted to Wow, where do I get It? the audience about what hap-Easy. Just like medical care, pens in est and what results All it takes is money. Certain from it.that the private enterprise sys- Est may work. It may be the tern is the most effective meth- happiness pill. But those of us od of delivery, Erhard markets who don’t have an extra $200 his process on a fee-for-service will never know. Werner Er-basis. Doctors should be able to hard wasn’t telling, really relate to this. A true pro- And that ever-enticing hope fessional. A professional’s pro- for just a bit of mellow human-fessional, in fact. ness in medical school andAnd cheap, too. A mere medicine once again proved to $200 for the two weekend be just a figment of our imagi-training program, and a dis- nations, count for students at $125. But still, the implicit en-Already 14,000 people have dorsement of a private corn-gone through the process. A mercial venture by the publicly money-back guarantee does supported School of Medicine not seem to be necessary as just seems mighty strange.Life Does Not WorkContinued from page 5 this, but I presume it knows what’s going on.The model ofwho we are is illustrated by the sometimes fact that at one point in our existence, say adolescence, we were told “You are a man, you are no longer a boy.” Females may insert the proper nouns. We may have panfcked on hearing these words because we had no conception of what a man was. We had to scramble for some acceptable accouterments of worth as a man. We got a “man act” together. Mr. Erhard describes teen-agers as adults who don’t have their show put together well enoughto be accepted all the time by themselves and others. Eric Erikson would have agreed.The basic thing which Mr. Erhard’s Seminar Training offers is a chance for those who haven’t already seen the discrepancy between the show they’ve put together and the patient experiencer inside to do it. The program, which is at least a three-day process and costs money, has seen 14,000 people, many of whom are satisfied customers. No workable program has been evolved for those who can’t pay, but the search continues.Linda Fraley
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