Word: curely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stark horrors of the public asylum are realistically presented to show the terrifying fate of the mentally sick. An ignorant doctor and a power-loving nurse each causes relapses when the patient is almost recovered. Her cure is the work of one doctor who takes special interest in the case. Without this doctor, she would be one more at the bottom...
...cures administered to psychotic calculators are weirdly like the modern cures for insanity. One method is to overload the calculator with an extra strong electrical impulse in hope that the shock will stop the machine's oscillations. This is rather like the shock treatment given to human psychotics. Another cure is to isolate part of the calculator's mechanism, hoping to cut off the source of trouble. This is "like the lobotomies which brain surgeons perform. Lobotomies sometimes work (for both machine and brain) but are apt to reduce, in both cases, the subject's judgment...
Here & there the picture shows glints of a typically slick Hollywood finish. It is more specious than convincing when it tries to get across the point that schizophrenia is something that "can happen to anybody." And Virginia's cure, once she turns the corner, seems suspiciously quick, easy and well-timed for a happy ending (in reality, she might very likely suffer a relapse). But with all its minor faults, The Snake Pit is an important motion picture. One of its notable achievements is that it establishes Olivia de Havilland not so much as a star, a dubious title...
...churches, nor with the good and bad manners of modern man, nor with the terrifying picture of a culture that is oriented only technically and concerned only with production, nor with the threat of the atomic bomb, nor certainly with the few measures by which. we think we might cure all this calamity . . . [Man] himself is a part of the evil he thinks to overcome...
There are, says Fishbein, about 3,500 scientifically trained practicing psychologists and psychiatrists. But there are at least 25,000 others-"many of them charlatans"-who advertise that they can cure every psychic ill that man is heir to. The public now pays $375 million a year to these psychological quacks...