Word: mental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer yes to any of these questions, says Dr. Will, your mental health is probably none too robust, and a psychiatrist would do you more good than harm...
Psychotherapy (the treatment of mental illness) includes other surprising-and less unpleasant-methods. At the Menninger clinic, for instance, doctors might prescribe, for a depressed patient, "two weeks of unsolicited love." This means that the patient's doctor and nurses should treat him with the full measure of brotherly love that he needs but does not know how to ask for. Psychiatrists also use music as a soother, and such "occupational therapy" as publishing newspapers, carpentry and jewelry-making...
State hospitals throughout the U.S. are, in general, scandalously crowded. Thousands of mentally disordered patients are forced to live like animals in bare, foul-smelling rooms. There is an average increase of 12,000 a year in the state hospital population. Today, 41% of all hospital beds (580,273 out of 1,400,318) are for mental patients. The cost is an indication of the care given to "public charges": state hospitals, on the average, spend about $1.50 a day per patient. The cost at Menningers...
...Army at first stamped "psychoneurosis" on the discharged man's medical record. When the "pn" label scared off prospective employers, Dr. Will had the policy changed: after February 1945, the record of a man discharged for mental cause carried such whizzbang-medicalese -stunning but relatively harmless-as "conversion reactions," "somatization reactions," "anxiety reactions...
psychology. A science that investigates and describes the mind. "Clinical psychology" investigates mental illness or maladjustment. (Psychologists need not be M.D.s...