Word: mental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Couch or Box? Author Sheen does not denounce all psychiatry, or even all Freudian techniques. He concedes that medical science, in dealing with mental problems that have no ethical or moral causes, "has a vast area in which it can legitimately operate." He objects to Freudian doctrines chiefly when they enter the realm of philosophy with such assertions as "man is an animal and has no free will, or that 'religious doctrines are illusions...
...much of it on your way. The whole prospect and outlook of mankind grew immeasurably larger, and the multiplication of ideas also proceeded at an incredible rate. This vast expansion was, unhappily, not accompanied by any noticeable advance in the stature of man, either in his mental faculties or his moral character. His brain got no better, but it buzzed more...
...Snake Pit. A harrowing adaptation of the bestselling novel, with Olivia de EJavilland as the mental patient (TIME...
...Even the mentally ill feel television's hypnotic spell. Indiana State Prison has already reported that television 1) has a calming effect on its mental-case prisoners, and 2) results in a saving on sedatives. Last week, in rural Amityville, N.Y., Dr. George E. Carlin installed five television sets for his mental patients at Louden-Knickerbocker Hall, a 63-year-old private sanatorium. Said Owner John F. Louden: "We're using TV as a form of occupational therapy, to take the patients' minds off themselves and to let them live nearer to a normal life...
...Snake Pit. A harrowing adaptation of the bestselling novel, with Olivia de Havilland as the mental patient (TIME...