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Some psychiatrists nonetheless believe that the impersonality of modern mass production at least contributes to the problem of mental health. Others, like Du Font's psychiatric chief, Dr. Gerald Gordon, feel that the job actually provides a needed center of reality. Says Dr. Gordon: "Industry is one of the few realistic situations in our present culture, because its success depends on the hard, cold profit-loss statistics. What is really good, sound business is also good mental health...
Because of the recent outbreak of hostilities in Algeria, the Forum had invited Abdel Kader Chanderli, an envoy from the Font de Liberation National, the provisional Algerian government (now in Tunis) to argue the stand of the nationalists. They had also asked the French consulate either to send or to recommend an expert to clarify the colonial position of the Fifth Republic...
Vova Marchenko was three months old when his parents took him to the Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Magnitogorsk (pop. 284,000) to be baptized by immersion, as is the practice of the Russian Orthodox Church. When the Rev. Ivan Scherbatov lifted little Vova from the font, the baby was dead-"the victim of a senseless rite," as Moscow's daily Sovietskaya Rossiya put it. Called before a People's Court, Father Scherbatov denied his guilt, contended that the child was ill and would have died anyway. But medical investigators disputed him, and the priest...
Like many another company, Du Pont pays for the worker's diagnosis and early treatment in an outside alcoholism clinic. But how does the company spot the man who needs treatment? Answered Du Font's Alcoholism Advisor David Meharg, himself a member of Alcoholics Anonymous: "When a man-or woman-stops bragging about how much he can drink and begins sneaking and lying about it, that's when he is an alcoholic...
Help from A.A. Du Font's model assault on the bottle problem was detailed by its assistant medical director, Dr. C. Anthony D'Alonzo, in The Drinking Problem (Gulf Publishing; $2.95). The company first looks for certain giveaway signs: "Frequent absenteeism (characteristically on Monday); a gradual and appreciable drop in efficiency; a change in general appearance and dress habits; frequent disappearances from work." Next, Du Pont medics approach the alcoholic sympathetically, tell him that the company views his alcohol problem as an illness, not unlike heart disease. The company then sends the drinker to its own psychiatrists...