Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John L. Butler, chief of Idaho's Department of Mental Health, had publicly opposed sentencing the homosexual adults to prison terms: "We have to build up community supports for them," he said. "One alternative might be to let them form their own society and be left alone." Judge Merlin S. Young disagreed. In sentencing one of the men, the judge said: "As an adult, you have an obligation to the youth of the community...
...breakfast, then caught a bus to an old stone mansion on Montreal's Pine Avenue. At 34, Emma looked like any other secretary going to work. But her destination was no office: it was the Allan Memorial Institute of Psychiatry. There, from 9 to 5, Emma was a mental patient. In the evening, she took the bus home again...
Died. Antônio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz, 81, Portuguese neurologist, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1949 as the first man to devise an operation for the treatment of mental disorders (the prefrontal lobotomy), Portuguese Foreign Minister from 1918-19; in Lisbon...
...stranger in this world." LSD After Dinner. In somewhat smaller doses, LSD may have the opposite effect and actually help psychiatrists to clear up mental illnesses. British researchers have found it useful in psychoneuroses, generally rated as the milder forms of emotional disturbance (TIME, June 28, 1954). In Manhattan, Psychiatrist Harold A. Abramson of the Cold Spring Harbor Biological Laboratory has developed a technique of serving dinner to a group of subjects, topping off the meal with a liqueur glass containing 40 micrograms of LSD. Instead of upsetting the subjects, it often helps them to recall and relive-in each...
...appear to be fully anesthetized may still be "capable of feeling, hearing and remembering things that happen in operating rooms," Harvard University's Dr. Philip Solomon told the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists in Manhattan. As a result of such improper anesthesia, he said, psychiatrists and other mental-health workers sometimes have to treat people who suffer from operating-room memories...