Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Surrealist painters and writers are concerned. As it happens, most of the critical enthusiasm for Mr. Caldwell's work has been devoted less to defending his "realism" than to pointing out the beauties of his style. There is no denying the hypnotic effect which the rhythmic dialogue of the mental defectives in "Tobacco Road," in its stage version, exercises on the spectator. One leaves the theatre on the point of babbling oneself. Mr. Caldwell's stylistic devices are, though effective, simple rather than subtle. As in all his earlier books, there are paragraphs in this latest collection which could...
Written, directed and produced by Edmund Goulding, The Flame Within displays advantageously that extraordinary confusion of sex with altruism which, for her admirers, constitutes Ann Harding's chief charm. In other respects it demonstrates the contention that subjects such as mental therapy are best treated in more adult fashion or else left alone...
Already half the hospital patients of the nation are in insane asylums or their equivalents. Psychiatrists are convinced that within a few years one out of twenty of the inhabitants of the U. S. will be mentally incompetent or emotionally unstable. To cope with that dreary future all sorts of organizations exist such as National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Special Schools Association (to train "retarded" children). Friedsam Foundation (to study children especially), American Neurological Association (which meets in Montreal next week), American Psychiatric Association...
They all have researches under way to investigate the mechanics of mental and nervous derangement, none more so than the psychiatrists who met in Washington last week. Under the presidency of Manhattan's suave Professor Clarence Orion Cheney, whose 24 years' dealing with madmen leaves him nonetheless hopeful for humanity, the psychiatrists considered scores of situations like the following...
Explanations: The uninjured parts of her brain have assumed the work of the excised part; remaining bits of the thinking part of her brain, now unencumbered by the tumor, serve her adequately; her unusual ability to concentrate may be due to a lack of mental side channels characteristic of whole-brained individuals...