PSYCHIATRIC STAFF PROGRAM CALL, FY 1972-1976

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06180A000100080043-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 14, 2002
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: December 31, 1969
• Content Type: REQ

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31 December 1969
PSYCHIATRIC STAFF PROGRAM CALL, FY 1972-19766
Introduction
The Psychiatric Staff has made progress in Its various programs,
generally. The availability of the Senior Psychiatric Panel to meet
regularly with the Psychiatric Staff, as well as the addition of a fourth
member who brings particular Interest in the problems of aging., has been of
use. The Staff continues to develop more productive ways of relating to
each panelist individually. In the formal Panel meetings, there has been
continuing Interest In the complex role of a psychiatrist in the Agency
setting, relating as he does to Management on the one hand, and to the
individual employee on the other. Intricate though these relations may be,
the basic fact has emerged that sensitive and personal information developed
in the course of evaluation by the Psychiatric Staff members can be handled
with the greatest discretion and tact, yet with the recognition that
inaorr,.tion so gained is probably never privileged in the same sense that
knowledge gained by a physician from a private patient would be. In the
course of Fl 1972-1976, the use of the Panel is expected to continue along
the lines developed to this point, that is to say panelists will continue
to be utilized by Staff members in the areas of their mutual interest and
the formal Panel meetings will continue to be devoted to topics of general
Psychiatric Staff interest. Some variation in the format of the meetings may
be expected from time to time. Thus, additional expenses are not foreseen.
As an alternative, it is possible to consider doing away with the Panel,
at the expense of the professional stimulation which it provides--a most
undesirable alternative.
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