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...which was originally proposed not by a professional but by a hospital aide, is that chronic mental patients are dependent personalities who do not have much motivation to change their behavior as long as they have other people to look after them. DeLeon's goal was not to cure their dependence but to transfer it to the family group. "Once you switch your attitude toward these people and assume they are in control of themselves," he says, "they no longer go out of control...
...Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. "The sweat bubbled in the creases of his forehead whenever Mehmet told specific details about his job," Eisendrath recalls. Shortly afterward Mehmet disappeared mysteriously from the BNDD network-presumably a casualty. Says Eisendrath: "In a way the sickness-and attempted cure-of the U.S. drug problem had confused Mehmet, and quite possibly destroyed...
...Rehabilitation Center (ARC) at Little Creek, Va. At first, Frank objected to the assignment: "I'm a chief petty officer and nobody is going to push me around." Several weeks of therapy changed his attitude. "I'm an alcoholic," he acknowledged later. "But there's a cure for this thing...
...flimflam man of God who gives good service in return for his dollar. Marjoe believes-and the movie demonstrates-that he did give something to many of the trusting blacks and whites who emptied their pockets for his prayer cloths: rapture here, deep joy there, and many a psychosomatic cure. Marjoe's own joy shows up as he gleefully counts an evening's take, or smugly apes himself, lolling on a water bed and proclaiming "Glory jee to Beezus...
...days later, the crisis-and the thermometer -passed. Most of the doctors' colleagues applauded their patience in delaying surgery. But some questioned their use of a low-roughage diet. According to Drs. Ernest Johnson and Watson Parker, a high-bulk diet, such as is often prescribed to cure constipation, may have proved more helpful in speeding the thermometer on its tortuous...