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...long, dolorous history of mental illness. They are still at it. Berlin-born Dr. Heinz Edgar Lehmann, who introduced chlorpromazine at Verdun Protestant Hospital outside Montreal, is barnstorming at meetings called to find ways of developing still more and better drugs. New York's Dr. Nathan S. Kline, who introduced reserpine at Rockland State Hospital, is in Iran, fomenting a psychiatric revolution there. Just before he left the U.S., Dr. Kline told the New York Academy of Medicine what has been wrought in these ten years. It is impressive indeed...
...number of mental patients. If their numbers had continued to mount since 1956-when use of the drugs became widespread and fairly systematic-at the same rate as in the pre-drug years, there would now be 82,000 more patients confined in mental hospitals. "Instead," said Dr. Kline, "there has been an actual decrease of 54,000 patients, giving a difference of 136,000 persons." The care of these might-have-been patients over eight years would have cost more than $1 billion, Dr. Kline estimates; building hospitals to house the newcomers would have cost $2 billion more. Alongside...
Anybody admitted to a mental hospital today has twice as good a chance of getting out as he would have had before the drugs. Therefore, said Dr. Kline: "Public-mental-hospital patients now come with an expectation of improvement, and they come earlier-when treatment is more apt to be successful...
...artistic withdrawal syndrome, a turning away from the calamitous Depression that the social realism of the 1930s pitilessly explored, and from the war that followed. But the young abstract expressionists showing this year are few and-by comparison with such "Old Masters" as Pollock, Kline and De Kooning-lackluster. By the evidence of what is on view in Manhattan, the nation's art center, the liveliest artists and galleries prize realism, not social, not photographic, not academic, but in new guises...
...which was founded by his father, he has interests in paper and in a maker of Christmas-tree balls, has backed a Broadway musical (The Most Happy Fella), and owns a chunk of the Saturday Review. His collection of modern art contains Dubuffet, Braque, Leger, Gris, Pollock, Arp and Kline, is valued at more than...