Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greek, lets them concentrate instead on such subjects as Elementary Music, Consumers' Problems, Principles of Dietetics, Tap Dancing, Expressive Speech. The courses are grouped to correspond with the seven main divisions which sprightly President Wood and Psychologist Wernett W. Charters made of women's problems: ethical, physical, mental, social, communicative, esthetic, budgetary. Psychologist Charters, who was engaged by Stephens in 1922 to help President Wood decide how women differed from men, has since collected and analyzed some 7.400 women's problems...
Haunting U. S. psychiatrists almost as much as it does their prospective patients is the alarming increase of modern mental diseases.* One out of every 22 persons, promises a New York State survey, may expect to spend some part of his life in a mental hospital. The gloomiest statisticians predict that in a couple of centuries everybody will be insane. The Mentally Ill in America is an authoritative, well-organized account of how the U. S. has coped with mental defectives thus far, attempts no predictions...
That modern treatment of mental diseases has gone a long way since colonial times is well illustrated by a description of such early methods of treatment as burning at the stake, iron shackles, "Madd-shirts," liberal doses of such drugs as "Spirit of Skull" (moss from the skull of a dead man unburied who had died a violent death). With exclusively mental hospitals limited to two until 1825, mental defectives were auctioned off to farmers, exhibited in cages for a fee, peddled at night from town to town in the hope of losing them. Called incurable until about 1830, insanity...
...doctors and reformers who pioneered U. S. psychiatry, Benjamin Rush showed the greatest ingenuity, Dorothea Dix (credited with founding or improving 32 mental hospitals) the greatest energy. Better known to present-day readers is Clifford Beers, whose autobiography, A Mind That Found Itself, published in 1908, created a sensation by exposing his typically brutal treatment in private, endowed and State hospitals during a three-year stay. On the crest of the ensuing public indignation was launched the modern mental hygiene movement, which during the World War received an impetus like neurology in the Civil War. When IQ tests tried...
...Barger, benzedrine sulfate became known to the medical world as a strong stimulant to the central nervous system. This year and last it has been used by a few students in the University prior to the examination period as a cure for fatigue and as a means to increased mental efficiency. To discourage the practice Arlie V. Bock, M.D., Ph.D., Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, now in charge of the Hygiene Department has issued the following statement...