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...industrial manic-depressive is steel, which suffers more in its bad moments and has more euphoria in its good ones than the heroine of an oldtime melo drama. Out last week were the 1940 earnings reports of the five biggest U. S. steelmakers, spectacular evidence that steel is now in a dizzy upswing. After a slow start until the defense boom got under way, the big five (which lost $108,088,560 in 1932) earned $197,315,722 last year, turned some neat per-share profits...
...Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens). But his taste is less for the dewy groves of dancing pixies than for the chasms and black alleyways where fiends hang out. Nor is this the madness of James Thurber (The Owl in the Attic, Fables for Our Time), smelling of neurosis, manic depression and similar 20th-Century ills. Collier offers a fuller-blooded evil often conjured up with appropriate 17th-Century English suggesting the grimmer scenes of King Lear. From that play he plucked titles for two former books: Defy the Foul Fiend and Tom's Acold. Author Collier...
...their everyday life, took Mrs. Meyer along to talk to their families, worked up detailed case records. In this manner they blazed the trail for psychiatric social work, a vital part of psychiatric treatment today. In 1908 he helped Yale-man Clifford Whittingham Beers, who had recently recovered from manic-depressive insanity, start the mental hygiene movement to clean up State institutions, educate the public on insanity...
...diseased hypothalamus may not only cause manic-depressive psychoses (alternating fits of madness and despair) but also less common episodes of insanity. One 20-year-old patient, with a diseased hypothalamus, "sometimes on laughing . . . experiences a sensation of darkness coming from the back to the front of the head, followed by a sudden falling. . . . She also has periods of enforced immobilization during which she can't lift a hand by will, nor move a foot, nor speak. Emotion, triggering morbid sleep, put one of my patients in an impossible position when he suddenly slept with snores on kissing...
...doctors had followed like hawks the zigzag progress of 124 drunkards (100 male, 24 female) in McLean Hospital, Waverly, Mass. "A more variegated collection of personalities," they wrote, "would be difficult to assemble: some were sociable, some seclusive, some stubborn, some easily influenced, some cyclothymic [manic-depressive], some schizoid [ingrown] , some intelligent, some dull and so on, ad infinitum; the only trait these people seemed to have in common was addiction to the excessive use of alcohol." Why they drank, the doctors found it impossible to discover...