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...first time any of us saw Franz Kline's tall white paintings streaked with huge black strokes that might be girders or shadows, we were impressed...
...linemen-who are supposed to be long on brawn and short on brains. The winners: Tufts' David Thompson, Rutgers' Alex Kroll, Vanderbilt's Wade Butcher, Western Reserve's Albert Iosue, Colorado's Joe Romig, Rice's Robert Johnston, Oregon State's Mike Kline, Utah State's Merlin Olsen...
Since 1956, said Dr. Kline, there has been a drop of 23,000 in the population of state hospitals in 40 states, against a pre-drug estimate of a 60,000 increase over five years. This represents a current saving of $125 million a year on patients' upkeep; counting new building programs now being scrapped, he put the total saving at $1 billion so far. More important than money is the fact that increasing numbers of patients are leaving state hospitals, and have low relapse rates on continuing, outpatient drug treatment...
Unwilling and Unable. Yet most community mental-health clinics (usually city-or county-operated) will not accept patients who have ever been in a state hospital, Kline said. And many will not take a patient who is on drugs, because the medicine "would interfere with treatment." Moreover, many clinics have no personnel willing or even competent to prescribe or administer drugs...
...Kline, every admission to a mental hospital means that society or psychiatry has failed: illnesses should be diagnosed earlier and treated promptly and aggressively, which means using drugs in most cases. His explanation of why such energetic measures are not being generally adopted: "Blind prejudice, ignorance and despicable smugness are spelling disaster for tens of thousands of patients...