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...hero, the unassuming, unambitious Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce). In order to find a little peace and quiet, Lowry spends every spare moment fantasizing about another life. In his dreams, we find him coursing through the clouds over a fairytale landscape, and fighting to rescue a beautiful maiden (Kim Greist), a stark contrast to his humdrum daily existence in which we find him ably solving problems for his incompetent but adoring boss (Ian Holme...
That conclusion was reached after hundreds of depressed patients had been interviewed by a computer programmed by Psychiatrist John Greist and David Gustafson, professor of preventive medicine. In 72 of the cases, the computer predictions were compared with those made by therapists in traditional face-to-face interviews. The computer correctly identified the three patients who attempted suicide within 48 hours after their interviews. The therapists failed to predict any of the three attempts. One patient was about to be released when the computer determined that he had a gun, bullets and a precise suicide plan. In long-range predictions...
...Greist believes it is the methodical and impersonal nature of computer interrogation that may make it more accurate. "Doctors are often reluctant to ask direct questions," he says. "Patients talk readily to doctors about chest pains and nosebleeds. But when the problem is homosexuality, illicit drug use or thoughts of suicide, the communication problem is serious...
Though more than 1,000 U.S. institutions have computers that could use his program, Greist admits it will be difficult to get the medical profession interested. One indication: even in Greist's tests, some of the therapists screening patients that the computer had interrogated refused to analyze the [interview] printouts. Their minds were already made...
...least a beginning has been made in the medical use of such psychological effects of running. Dr. John Greist, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin, recently treated 15 cases of depression by prescribing jogging. Results were said to have been as good as, or better than, those obtained with traditional techniques. Says University of Chicago Psychiatrist Dr. Jarl Dyrud: "One of the best ways of treating depression is by forcing activity. Of course, you have no way of telling which is cart and which is horse, but I have a hunch that a lot of this jogging exercise makes...