Word: hebephrenia
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Brokers know all about Wall Street's legendary selling panics, but whoever heard of a buying panic? That is precisely what swept the New York Stock Exchange late last week. In two incredible days of financial hebephrenia, the cavernous trading room echoed with delirious shouts and yells so loud that it was hard for brokers to talk to one another. After 15 months of steadily slumping prices, the market had taken a sudden and unexpected U-turn, sending short sellers, who make profits by betting on continued declines in stock prices, running for cover...
...which there was no cause to be found in physical illness, got good results in twelve, had to stop the drug in two cases because of unfavorable side effects. One woman, who showed as good improvement as any, had been in the hospital 26 years. Several cases suffered from hebephrenia or catatonic schizophrenia-conditions that are notoriously resistant to any treatment. Three patients whose mental illness had its roots in physical disease (one had had syphilis) did not respond. Emphasizing the distinction between the effects of iproniazid and previously used ataraxics, Rockland's Research Director Nathan S. Kline called...
...bouquet to both Dr. Jung and TIME [Feb. 14] for their splendid efforts in at tempting to convey many highly specialized data concerning today's most momentous issue - genuine mental health. In this era of escapism, mass alcoholism, counterfeit divorce decrees, hospitalized thousands of paranoia, hebephrenia and catatonia victims who are the victims of serious social blights, shallow philosophy, A- and H-bomb hysteria, pathetically false rationalizing and a disregard for God's holy commandments, etc., yours was an exceptionally well-timed article...
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