Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem ... I flew 49 missions during World War II and was often briefed on P.W. status under the old (Geneva) rules ... To expect draftees to submit to the new code is to raise a new crop of "conchies." To expect men to resist the combination of physical and mental torture known to be practiced by the Chinese Reds without the aid of extensive training on the same level as the inquisitors is like picking a man off the street and putting him in the ring with Marciano, then punishing him for losing the fight...
...Doctors or Policemen? A psychiatrist named Walther Spielmeyer denounced the use of psychoanalysis on Dora as "mental masturbation." Jones himself reports: "I was forced to resign a neurological appointment in London for making inquiries into the sexual life of patients." By 1910 the mere mention of Freud's theories was enough to start the chairman of a Hamburg congress. Herr Professor Wilhelm Weygandt. banging his fist and shouting: "This is not a topic for discussion at a scientific meeting; it is a matter for the police...
Like ex-patient Boisen, he was shocked at the casual insensitivity of the clergy who bothered to visit mental patients at all; they would preach on such irrelevant subjects as foreign missions or potentially explosive texts, e.g., "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out." But there was more to it than simply giving the patients understanding, says Bruder. "I found in what Boisen called 'the wilderness of the lost' you discovered the needs of people at the ground level, naked both emotionally and physically. It was a whole new field...
...purpose of the course is to prepare future ministers to detect signs of incipient mental illness in situations that might be inaccessible to psychiatrists, e.g., neurotic "religious experiences" or morbid guilt feelings. On such matters many parishioners might more readily accept the advice of a clergyman than a doctor. But beyond that, the fields of psychology and religion are more and more converging; clergymen have realized that they must, in part, compete with the psychiatrists in matters of personal guidance...
...Thank Thee, O God. At least equally important is what the student often finds out about himself in the raw emotional life of a mental hospital. Says Presbyterian David Alexander Fee, 25, of Pittsburgh, a senior at Princeton Theological Seminary: "When I came here, I was not giving of myself. I was reserved. I couldn't share. I think I am better...