Bibliographic record
Abstract
Chaim Shatan died of heart problems on August 17, 2001. This psychiatrist, teacher, psychohistorian, and advocate for Vietnam veterans, is being mourned by colleagues in the Psychohistory Forum as well as many other people whose lives he touched. He was born on September 1, 1924, in the town of Wolclawek, Poland, and was brought to Toronto, Canada, as a two-year-old, later moving to Montreal. An honor student, he took his undergraduate and medical degrees at McGill University in Montreal, before coming to New York City in 1950 to begin his six-year training program at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. He held academic appointments at Columbia, McGill, New York University, and a variety of other institutions. Despite his numerous health problems forcing a temporary retirement in 1953-1954, Shatan practiced psychotherapy as recently as last April. Though his career was devoted primarily to the private practice of individual therapy, he also did group therapy as well as hypnosis with patients suffering from phobias, obesity, and addiction to cigarettes.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.046 | 0.039 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".