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Symposium on unidentified flying objects: hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, second session, July 29, 1968.

U.S. House of Representatives · 1968-07-29 · 256 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is the printed record of a July 29, 1968 symposium on unidentified flying objects held by the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the U.S. House of Representatives, chaired by Rep. J. Edward Roush. The committee heard statements from six scientists: J. Allen Hynek, James E. McDonald, Carl Sagan, Robert L. Hall, James A. Harder and Robert M. L. Baker. It also printed papers from Donald Menzel, Stanton Friedman, Frank Salisbury and others. Hynek argued that puzzling UFO reports from competent witnesses deserve serious scientific study.

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MMPI REPORT
CASE NO:. 00000,
AGE 37 MALE
0 41130/
RPSI NO: 00000
THE TEST ITEMS APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN ANSWERED TRUTHFULLY WITH
NO EFFORT TO DENY OR EXAGGERATE.
THIS PATIENT APPEARS TO BE CURRENTLY DEPRESSED AND ANXIOUS.
HE SHOWS A PATTERN WHICH IS FREQUENT AMONG PSY IATRIC PATIENTS.
FEELINGS OF INADEQUACY. SEXUAL CONFLICTS AND • à\ITY ARE ACCOM-
PANIED BY A LOSS OF EFFICIENCY. INITIATIVE A CONFIDENCE.
INSOMNIA IS LIKELY. ALONG WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE. E IS ANXIOUS.
TENSE. AND OVERLY SENSITIVE. SUICIDAL T GHTS RE A POSSIBILITY.
IN THE CLINICAL PICTURE. DEPRESSION PRE',' ES. PSYCHIATRIC
PATIENTS WITH THIS PATTERN ARE LIKELY TO AGNOSED AS DEPRESSIVE
REACTION OR ANXIETY REACTION. THE jRACT 'ISTICS ARE RESISTANT
TO CHANGE, ALTHOUGH SYMPTOMATIC RE Y BE OBTAINED WITH BRIEF
TREATMENT.
HE TENDS TO BE PESSIMIST MPLAINING. AND IS LIKELY TO
BE DEFEATIST. CYNICAL. AND UNWI'I. G TO STICK WITH TREATMENT. HE
MAY NEED FREQUENT REASSURA E AB HIS MEDICAL CONDITION. DY-
NAMICALLY. HE IS A NARCIS TIC AND SELF-CENTERED PERSON WHO IS
RIGID IN THOUGHT AND ACTI A EASILY UPSET IN SOCIAL SITUATIONS.
REPRESSION AND
XIETY. IN PERIODS
EXPRESSED IN SOMATIC
REASSURANCE.
IAL ARE UTILIZED AS A DEFENSE AGAINST AN-
HTENED STRESS HIS ANXIETY IS LIKELY TO BE
TOMS. HE MAY RESPOND TO SUGGESTION AND
HE IS A SEL ONTROLLED CAUTIOUS PERSON WHO MAY BE SOMEWHAT
FEMININE I IS IrtEREST PATTERNS. HE IS IDEALISTIC, SOCIALLY
PERCEPTIVE RESPONSIVE. HE SHOWS SOME SELF AWARENESS. BUT HE
IS SENSITIV D PRONE TO WORRY. HE IS VERBALLY FLUENT. PERSUASIVE
AND ABLE TO MMUNICATE IDEAS CLEARLY.
THIS PERSON IS HESITANT TO BECOME INVOLVED IN SOCIAL SIT-
UATIONS. HE MAKES AN EFFORT TO CONSCIENTIOUSLY CARRY OUT HIS RE-
SPONSIBILITIES. BUT HE IS RETIRING AND SOMEWHAT WITHDRAWN FROM IN-
TERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS.
NOTE: ALTHOUGH NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE CLINICIAN'S PROFESSIONAL
JUDGMENT AND SKILL. THE MMPI CAN BE A USEFUL ADJUNCT IN THE DIAG-
NOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF EMOTIONAL DISORDERS

Cases discussed

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Hearing transcript, from the govinfo collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 256 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.