U professor recognized nationally
After nearly 30 years at MSU, psychology Professor Bertram Karon is being rewarded.The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology presented Karon with its 2000 Award for Contributions to the Ethical Human Sciences and Services last week at a three-day conference in New York.Throughout his career, Karon has been a proponent of psychoanalysis - a method of investigating a patients emotional psyche through free association and dream analysis - in place of excessive medication, shock treatment and other methods of treating patients.There are problems with psychoanalysis - even Freud knew that - but Ive found it helpful as a theory and as a treatment, he said.Hes especially noted for his stance against using drugs to treat mental patients.Karon did his undergraduate studies at Harvard University and performed his graduate studies at Princeton University.