Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first accounts of insulin shock treatment for dementia praecox (type of insanity characterized by split personality, delusions, self-absorption, etc.) seemed to make the old miracle of casting out devils come true (TIME, Jan. 25, 1937).* Last week New York State's hard-headed Temporary Commission on State Hospital Problems, whose job it is to find ways of reducing the enormous state hospital population (73,000), ignored the miracle angle, produced the first report on what insulin can mean in days & months, dollars & cents. It recommended to Governor Dewey that, if only for economy's sake, insulin shock...
...State mental hospital; 3) injuries to patients should be promptly investigated; 4) new sources of attendants should be found-possibly among conscientious objectors; 5) patients who have escaped and remained at large for one year should not be automatically discharged as at present (one of Creedmoor's dementia praecox patients got a job as a Government employe in Philadelphia). He later added that patients merely senile should not be herded into institutions for the insane...
...Negro districts produce dementia paralytica or syphilitic collapse of the mind. But all forms of schizophrenia are remark ably frequent among white people living in predominantly Negro districts...
...Mental Hygiene, there are three times as many mental breakdowns among enlisted men and the National Guard (who did not get psychiatric examinations before they were accepted) as there are among carefully screened draftees. Most of these men are victims of the most prevalent mental disorder in the U.S.-dementia praecox, a disease characterized by withdrawal from reality to a private world of fantasy. Dr. Alexander Simon of St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington made a study of 500 mental breakdowns in all branches of the armed forces, found that incipient cases fell into certain categories stated...
...loved the neurotic, beautiful Cassandra Tower (Betty Field) only to have her murdered by her father (Claude Rains), his revered teacher, who in turn kills himself. Dr. Tower's papers explain why: Cassandra's mother had gone insane; Cassandra herself had shown the first signs of dementia praecox...