Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spending enough money on lifesaving medical research? Could such killing and crippling diseases as cancer, heart disorders, arthritis and mental illness be brought under swift control by a crash program like World War II's Manhattan Project? What should be the Federal Government's share in financing research? Informed answers to these questions-literally, matters of life and death for millions-came this week from a committee set up a year ago by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...professor of theology, in a lecture at the University of Michigan. A utilitarian faith, declared Theologian Niebuhr (brother of Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr), is "the kind that says it is a good thing to believe in God because it will make you prosperous. A utilitarian faith takes the form of mental health. It allays anxiety. It makes you feel as you feel when you've had a good hot bath. This is the adjustment of religion to the American way of life, to the refrigerator and the Cadillac way of life. This kind of faith never says: 'I tremble...
Fallible Device. Soon, in his one-man campaign to stamp out mental health, Horner seizes on his fellow teacher Joe Morgan, the energetic pragmatist. Morgan's wife Rennie is a kindred empty spirit. Says Horner of her: "She had peered deeply into herself and had found nothing." Rennie herself seems to agree. Of her life before she met Joe, she says: "I just dreamed along like a big blob of sleep." Now she regards her Joe as her personal God. After she discovers, in a grotesque episode of peeping tomfoolery, that her husband is not God after...
Virginia undergoes before our eyes a sort of psychoanalysis, though there is fortunately none of the professional mumbo-jumbo that normally accompanies such matters. Through this process Virginia manages to exorcise the mental tormentors and thoughts of suicide, until she can at the end rejoice, "It is pretty here!" Thus, the title of the play not only designates its physical locale but also symbolizes the catharsis of Virginia's crowded, confused mind...
Entertainment Barred. The A.M.A.'s house of delegates last week also approved a report by its council on mental health giving a guarded endorsement of the use of hypnosis in medicine, surgery and dentistry. Because hypnosis is such easy "meat for the charlatan," the council insisted that its use should be limited to specially trained doctors and dentists, who must be careful to use it only in the area of their specialty. On the hazards of hypnosis, the council had conflicting evidence and could reach no agreement. But on one point it was dogmatic: "The use of hypnosis...