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Gold Coasters vociferously denied any psychopathic tendencies at their House. Mr. Little prepared to inform the Bureau of its mistake and return unanswered the forms asking for the number of manic-depressive, schizophrenic, senile and traumatic patients--also alcoholics...
Twenty of the most brilliant families of New England teem with one form of insanity: manic-depressive psychosis. Such is the opinion, published last week by famed Boston Psychiatrist Abraham Myerson. His sources: century-old case records in McLean Hospital, Belmont, Mass., one of the oldest private hospitals in America...
...There have been few men of conventional "genius" (original creative ability), few artists and musicians among the New Englanders. Rather have they been "men of energy and drive." The manic drive itself, said Dr. Myerson, does not guarantee success. "It is of value only if joined to ability...
...examples fits the history of the distinguished James clan. The founder was an immigrant who grew rich after the Revolution. His son Henry had depressions, suffered greatly, finally reached a religious philosophy. One of the grandchildren landed in the hospital with manic-depressive psychosis. Two others were a famed psychologist and a famed novelist. (William James suffered for years from severe depression...
...patient with schizophrenia or manic-depressive psychosis (alternating fits of madness and despair) is placed on his back on a table. Two electrodes on a forceps-like spring are set firmly on his temples...