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...personality change, apathy or withdrawal in a young person, we make sure that he is seen by a physician. But when those symptoms appear in elderly people, they are considered par for the course of old age. We rarely consider the possibility that elderly people who have had a breakdown can recover." Dr. Berezin successfully treated a 70-year-old woman who had a severe breakdown, her first. She had been picked up for drinking, setting fire to her home and other bizarre behavior, including chalking off a section of the sidewalk and claiming it as her own. In therapy...
...Great Depression! In these troubled times, how could more words about those troubled times become a national bestseller? The answer is that Studs Terkel's omnifaceted study of the last major societal breakdown in the U.S. seems remarkably relevant to 1970. For those who despair of the system, there is the sobering view of what ensues when the system collapses. For those who cannot understand why the system inspires so much dissent, there is a harrowing display of America's ingrown inequities...
...section of the sprawling Department of Health, Education and Welfare. And perhaps the most emotionally disturbed place within Health is the National Institute of Mental Health. Last week, just before the departure of HEW Secretary Robert Finch (see THE NATION), the institute underwent the bureaucratic equivalent of a psychotic breakdown. Its director, Dr. Stanley Yolles, 51, was summarily fired, and announced that he was seeking early retirement from Government service...
...Fainsod Committee Report on Faculty Restructuring was a natural battle ground. The committee was established to study the same problems that had led to the caucus's formation: the autocratic power of Faculty deans, student representation, the breakdown of the old committee structure...
...breakdown of the study follows...