{"id":2445,"date":"2021-12-13T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/?p=2445"},"modified":"2022-01-08T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:50:37","slug":"princess-valium-meets-shrink-think-everywoman-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/leo\/princess-valium-meets-shrink-think-everywoman-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPrincess Valium Meets Shrink Think.\u201d Everywoman, 1970."},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by former psychologist Sylvia Hartman, \u201cPrincess Valium Meets Shrink Think,\u201d published in Everywoman<\/em>, defines Valium as both a tranquilizer and threat to individual freedom, and explains how psychiatrists arbitrarily prescribe the drugs to women through the sexist \u201cDraw-a-Person\u201d test. The article begins with an ad which depicts a \u201cDraw-a-Person\u201d test, and describes it as \u201ca psychiatric diagnostic tool\u201d that allows psychiatrists to determine whether or not a patient should be prescribed Valium (Hartman 1). Hartman dismantles the credibility of the \u201ctest,\u201d but warns her audience that despite the ridiculousness of \u201cshrink think,\u201d they might be asked to \u201c\u2018Draw a person, a whole person,\u201d and lays out the method for \u201cpsyching-out [a] psychologist\u201d (8). In a tongue-in-cheek tone, Hartman explains how to avoid being prescribed Valium by drawing parts of the body correctly, which includes \u201cput[ting] junk around the eyes,\u201d \u201cmak[ing] the hair neat,\u201d and \u201ckeeping the hands away from the body…but not TOO far away\u201d (8). Each of these examples is an opportunity for Hartman to sarcastically point out the ridiculousness of the test. For example, she recommends avoiding shading, as that would be an opportunity for a psychiatrist to conclude that a patient \u201csees a ray of hope and has confidence that her future will be bright and sunny,\u201d a state of mind that would certainly be treated with Valium (8).<\/p>\n

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Drawing a Playboy Bunny: the optimal way to take a “Draw-a-Person” test, as detailed by Sylvia Hartman in the May 1970 issue of Everywoman<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n

The article concludes with an illustration of the ideal way to take the \u201cDraw-a-Person\u201d test, a woman who is ironically a Playboy Bunny (10). Through humor and critique, Hartman reaches the audience of Everywoman<\/em> and warns women of Valium and \u201cshrink think\u201d while simultaneously critiquing other patriarchal norms.<\/p>\n

Work Cited:<\/p>\n

Hartman, Sylvia. “Princess Valium Meets Shrink Think.” Everywoman<\/em>, vol. 1, no. 2, 29 May 1970, pp. 1+. JSTOR, www.jstor.org\/stable\/community.28036097.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by former psychologist Sylvia Hartman, \u201cPrincess Valium Meets Shrink Think,\u201d published in Everywoman, defines Valium as both a tranquilizer and threat to individual freedom, and explains how psychiatrists arbitrarily prescribe the drugs to women through the sexist \u201cDraw-a-Person\u201d test. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3174,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}