Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Farnsworth, Director of the University Health Services, outlined a plan for academic mental health, suggesting that teachers can effectively counsel students without attempting to assume a psychiatrist's role...
...Mental Health programs have a definite place in the university, Dana L. Farnsworth declared in his recently-published book, "Mental Health in College and University...
Farnsworth conceives of an academic mental-health plan which can deal with severe ilnesses, but concerns itself more with "the normal student, working against unnecessary handicaps." He suggests that students "alternate activity and rest, without undue concentration on any one aspect of college life...
...should rank so high in self-destruction (about five male suicides for each female, 3½ times as many gunshot deaths as hangings). Some have become rude enough to hypothesize. State Pathologist Richard S. Woodruff blames the suicide rate on three local factors: 1) two centuries of inbreeding, 2) mental depression stimulated by lonely mountains and rugged climate, 3) lack of mental health facilities. State Tax Commissioner Leonard W. Morrison adds a practical fourth cause. Says he of a state where 87% of income tax returns show less than $5,000 income a year: "They're not lonely. They...
...daughter is an all-tied-up-in-knots old maid; the son a psychotically bitter, frustrated writer. The son has in turn badly hurt the simple girl (Anne Baxter) who twice, from sheer sexual compulsion, became his unhappy wife. Divorced now, he comes from a mental home to break in upon her romance with an uncomplicated architect. All the time, amid such a fracturing of lives, people sit about, exhibiting the farcical side of family life...