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Stoughton Mass. 
29 Feb 1948 

Dear Sid: 

This has been a "hell of a week" - pardon my usual vulgarity, but things are straightening out, and if I can stay another week, I think I shall return without feeling two worried over her progress. 

When I got here I went at once, Tues A.M., to the college physician, Dr. Tisca, who had an hour or more conflab with me. Oh, I did run in to see Dean Kirby-Miller and had a brief little talk with her and made an appointment to see her the following AM. Dr. Tisca is a foreign trained doctor, with a fine little personality. I think she may be a French Jew, certainly not Germanic. She trained I think in a French psychiatric clinic - she told me but of course I can't get French in a rush when spoken. She said Doris had been coming to her more and more. In Nov. she had this depression, which she pulled out of. Then at the coop she met this boy and fell for him. Dr. T. said Doris always picked someone who wouldn't look at her - the boy being usually some rather adult well rounded person, and she a little Soph., and then of course came D.'s disappointment & consequent lack of confidence in herself. All this she lays to her early environment, and feels resentment towards us for our upbringing and our continual criticism of her faults, etc. She hasn't picked her friends very wisely, Dr. T. told me, and they aren't any great help. Doris has developed a certain feeling of persecution, after her lack of self confidence, they are making fun of her, etc. It is a horrible state of mind. Lately she has closed up to her room mate, no more confidences, etc. I had a long talk with the doctor. At first I felt vaguely that she was very critical of me, had really believed all the child's statements, but by the end of the interview, she told me herself that as far as I was concerned, she had over estimated the effect I had on her (Doris). We were in  complete accord about the whole matter. I said I had known 2 physicians in whom I had confidence. One of these,