Word: curely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sharply split in its views on the causes and treatment of schizophrenia as schizophrenics are supposed to be split in their personalities. The prevailing view is still that of Freud: that schizophrenia is the full flowering of a maladjustment to other people that is seeded in childhood; to cure it, the victim must be helped to establish better relationships. At the opposite end of the psychiatric spectrum are those who hold that schizophrenia is a biochemical abnormality; if the abnormality could be identified, the victim might be cured by correcting the body's chemistry...
...Gregers, this happiness is corrupt. These people must purge themselves of illusions, face bruising realities. He bluntly tells them the truth of things, and in one way or another kills the family he hoped to cure. A cynically humane doctor tells him of another cure: "I try to discover the basic lie, the pet illusion, that makes life possible, and then I foster...
...life imprisonment. (They were eventually pardoned.) Norman Thomas writes describing the brutal treatment of CO's in training camps: "Men were forcibly clad in uniform, beaten, pricked or stabbed with bayonets, jerked about with ropes around their necks, threatened with summary execution, tortured by various forms of the 'water cure.' In at least two cases men were immersed in the filth of latrines, one of them head downward...
...hope of the atomic age, when it dawned, was that if radioactivity did not kill mankind, it would cure it. It has done neither, and as time has passed, the fact has become increasingly clear that the greater value of nuclear medicine is in its use as a tool for diagnosis. "Therapy today constitutes no more than 1% of our activities," said Dr. James Quinn, director of nuclear medicine at Chicago Wesley Memorial Hospital, before a year-end meeting of the American College of Radiology...
...over blaring loudspeakers, pilgrims dressed in lionskins paraded around the gold-domed shrine, chanting, wailing, beating drums, and imploring the archangel to answer their prayers in return for offerings of jewelry, cash, painted ostrich eggs, rattails and leopard cubs. Disfigured beggars called upon Gabriel for the miracle of a cure. Vendors selling gum, candy, candles, post cards and pictures of movie stars shoved their way through the multitude. Barren women kissed the church's stones, praying the messenger of good tidings to grant them a child. On hand, in case immediate help was needed, were hundreds of swarthy Lotharios...