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Zombie. Another problem is what Manhattan Psychoanalyst Chaim Shatan calls the emotional anesthesia of captivity, a kind of psychological numbing that deadens feeling. Explains Los Angeles Psychiatrist Helen Tausend: "Many prisoners learn to cope with their situation by setting up low-key reactions in themselves-a kind of little death to save themselves from a bigger death." Back in the outside world, they often display a "zombie reaction"-apathy, withdrawal, lack of spontaneity and suppression of individuality. The symptoms often disappear quickly, but Shatan estimates that they can easily last three years. To a certain extent, he says, "You never...
...aftermath is concerned. Most, believes Kimball, could recover faster if they could be spared psychological upsets. His studies have shown that advance screening can identify those patients most likely to react badly to open-heart surgery. A complete description of what the patient can expect when he emerges from anesthesia, something few doctors now bother to give, could ease emotional anguish and make his recovery more rapid...
...present, and the uterine lining are withdrawn by means of a tube inserted through the cervix. It differs significantly, however, from similar procedures performed in clinics in New York and other states where abortion is legal. Vacuum aspiration, as usually done, requires dilation of the cervix under local anesthesia. Menstrual extraction requires little or no dilation in most cases. Instead, a thin (diameter: 4 mm.), flexible plastic tube, or cannula, is inserted through the cervix and into the uterus, and most of the uterine lining is then removed by means of suction or a specially designed syringe...
...French Overture on the harpsichord. A pair of Bach sonatas with harpsichord accompaniment. Some Mozart and some more Bach, this time grumbled out on a pipe organ. Such a program has always had its place in concert life, if only as a vaguely ennobling form of musical anesthesia. But if anyone had suggested it to an impresario, he would have been shown, with gentle pity, to the street...
...used to send an alternating current of about 400 milliamperes through the brain at roughly 100 volts for seven seconds (electric chairs employ a seven-ampere current at 50,000 volts). The resulting convulsion lasts less than a minute. The patient is protected by both muscle-relaxant drugs and anesthesia against one of shock treatment's early hazards: the possibility of arm or leg fractures. The patient experiences loss of recent memory when he regains consciousness, but memory returns quickly to all but elderly patients...