Word: halliday
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first glance, the health of Western civilization looks pretty good (e.g., people live longer than they used to). But Scottish Psychiatrist James L. Halliday, who took a long look, disagrees. A psychosomatic (mindbody) medicine man, he has come forth with a diagnosis that might not surprise Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr or Historian Arnold J. Toynbee: modern society is a very sick patient. The disease: an ailing mind. Dr. Halliday's findings are published this week in Psychosocial Medicine: A Study of the Sick Society (Norton...
...Symptoms. Dr. Halliday, onetime general practitioner and now a member of Scotland's Department of Health, finds many signs that society is coming apart at the mental seams. Except for a wartime spurt, the birthrate is declining, owing not to poor health but to the neurotic anxieties of parents. While the birthrate goes down, psychosomatic complaints such as peptic (stomach) ulcers...
With the breakdown of the father-dominated family and the emancipation of women, Dr. Halliday finds, there has been a significant sexual shift in psychosomatic diseases. In the 19th Century more women than men got ulcers and exophthalmic goiter; since 1900 it has been the other way around, increasingly so. During the late 19th Century, twice as many men as women got diabetes; by the 1930s there were two or three women with diabetes to every male sufferer. Dr. Halliday, who is married and the father of two children, comments: "The personality type of male was apparently becoming in some...
Western civilization's case history as drawn up by Dr. Halliday shows political and cultural symptoms, too: "social fragmentation," revealed by a rash of class warfare; increasing "intrusion of manifestations of the primitive and visceral," with "love becoming no longer sacramental but excremental"; a decline in religious faith, and loss of man's sense of his origins and destiny...
...production, President Jerome T. Kilty '50 will pay Richard, while Robert Keaghy '45 will direct. Others in top role include Bryant N. Halliday '49, Albert E. Marre 1L, Thayer David, and Miles Morgan...