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Nonetheless, by last week Watts and other U.S. neurosurgeons had performed more than 2,000 lobotomies, with sensational results. Lobotomy is used chiefly for serious mental diseases: schizophrenia and other forms of dementia praecox, compulsive neuroses, chronic, long-standing depression or agitation. Most cases are cured or greatly improved. So far, neurologists have discovered no seriously harmful effects. The operation is dangerous (a slight miscalculation may kill the patient by cutting a cerebral artery), but the skilled surgeons performing it have had very few deaths...
Even if Robert Taylor's role as Alan Garraway in "Undercurrent" could be explained somehow by an extreme inferiority complex, compounded with dementia praecox, schizophrenia, and an old murder and robbery hanging over his head, it is hard to explain the interminably delayed mental processes and reactions of Katharine Hepburn as his wife, Ann, who fails to understand what's wrong in the face of every possible warning and danger...
...clinic is prepared to treat any emotional or nervous disorder from a simple headache to dementia praecox; it farms out no psychotic cases. It has classified some 370 different types of headaches and experimented with a variety of new treatments; one of the most successful, developed by Dr. Arnold Friedman, is a novocaine injection in the head, which relaxes tense muscles and paves the way for persuading the patient that his headaches may disappear if he stops worrying about them...
Eccentric & Enormous. Like the works of other Southern writers (Carson McCullers, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner) Author Welty's earlier books also had their full quota of human abnormalities (including two deaf mutes, one case of dementia praecox, one spinster drowned in a rain barrel). Delta Wedding adds only one: an amiable child who is not all there. But she is very much all there as one of the eccentric, enormous Fairchilds family-nonchalant Mississippi gentlefolk who flit in & out of the doors and windows of their ancestral mansion much as the yellow butterflies flitted in & out of the train...
...simply could not grasp the simplest elements of Prussian discipline. On sighting Schoenberner, stiffly at attention on parade, this officer would leap forward, crying cordially: "How do you do, Mr. Schoenberner; have you seen that highly interesting article about the possibilities of psychoanalytic treatment even in cases of dementia praecox...