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Many victims of mental illness need never be sent to public hospitals, and many more could be helped toward a speedier, fuller recovery, if psychiatry took maximum advantage and made energetic use of drugs and knowledge already available. So said Dr. Nathan S. Kline last week at a meeting in Detroit of the American Public Health Association. The gains of the last five years are being largely ignored, he said...
...Kline, who is research director at New York's Rockland State Hospital and a pioneer in the use of drugs for severe mental illness, charged that public health officials have mostly refused to learn about the new drugs, and that some were actively blocking the use of new knowledge. The foot draggers, he said, included even psychiatrists and social workers who led the fight, decades ago, for more humane treatment of the mentally...
Saved a Billion. Dr. Kline was careful to insist that he does not say that drugs such as reserpine and chlorpromazine should be or can be the only treatment for mental ills or nervous disorders. But the opposition, he asserted, says that it has the only true gospel in psychotherapy, or talking-it-out methods. He quoted Dr. H. Angus Bowes: "To doubt the value of psychotherapy is regarded by many as slightly blasphemous, as though questioning the efficacy of prayer. But the physician who uses psychotherapy without medicine is as unhappy as his patients...
...Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, he searched for evidence to buttress his argument. He found a hopeful amount, and by last week Physicist Bowen had become something of a meteorological hero. After hearing Bowen talk at the International Conference of Cloud Physics in Australia, Meteorologist Dwight B. Kline, of the U.S. Weather Bureau, announced bluntly: "Dr. Bowen's theory is one of the most stimulating hypotheses in meteorology that has come along in years...
...collector show at Basel's Kunsthalle were back where dapper, 63-year-old Dotremont could vibrate to them. In addition to European moderns such as Dubuffet and Mathieu, there was a great acreage of Americans, notably Mark Tobey, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Joan Mitchell, Dotremont's canon: "Every painter turns out hundreds of works in his lifetime. I try to pick the masterpieces...