This Date in UCSF History: The Mad Doctor

[Originally authored by E. Fuller Torrey and published in Synapse on March 31, 1969.] Machines are even making inroads into psychiatry and the human mind. A psychiatrist at Stanford, Kenneth Colby, is trying to program a computer to do therapy; he calls it “the mad doctor.” Conditioning by an...

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Medicine

Wants Not Needs

February 18, 2019

Simone Kurial

You ask me why everyone around you is succeeding And you’re left alone conceding these feelings From when you first...

Coniferae

February 18, 2019

Look outside the window, The pine tree with a million needles, Needles that glisten at their tips, With a million...

Arts & Culture

It’s All About the Journey, Not the Destination

February 9, 2019

Jimmy Nguyen

Running a marathon is an exhaustive feat that should not be taken lightly. However, with proper planning and a vision...

Opinion

Wild Dream

February 2, 2019

Frank Chang

I slowly indulge in the warm whispers and tingling waves that travel up and down from around outside Deep within...

Student Life

Rookie Questions

February 2, 2019

Christopher Cai

November 17, 2017 — Two weeks ago, I volunteered in the student-run homeless clinic in downtown San Francisco. Having arrived...

Student Life

Simple Questions

January 25, 2019

Kevin Suh

I am not exactly sure what setting nor what city I will end up in after I graduate from UCSF/SFSU...

Student Life

Recent Support for the Law of Unfair Magnetism and Adoration

January 25, 2019

Victoria Turner

Editor's Note: "Recent Support for the Law of Unfair Magnetism and Adoration" Victoria Turner earned an honorable mention in the...

Humor

Point Cabrillo Lighthouse

January 18, 2019

Hardik Kothare

Editor's note: Point Cabrillo Lighthouse is Hardik Kothare's second place winning entry into the Synapse Storytelling Contest, photography category. The...

Arts & Culture