Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conclusion seems inescapable that a large proportion of these people are 'treated' by the doctor just because they are tiresome or unhappy . . . Only by grotesque mental gymnastics can they be made out to be ill in any other sense. In fact, the stealing, bedwetting, bad-tempered children whom, as magistrates, we refer for psychiatric treatment, are diagnosed as sick by their very stealing, bed-wetting and bad temper. But what can we say about the parents of these children, some of whom also consent to receive 'treatment' for themselves? In what sense can they be said...
...Plainly, the distinction between the mentally sick on the one hand and the sinful (or the miserable and the muddled) on the other, is getting shakier and shakier ... Hence the dilemma: either our psychiatrist must be spending his time upon those who are not really ill at all ... or our conception of mental illness must be much too narrow, and needs to be widened to include pretty well everybody who is in trouble of any kind...
...provocateurs." In the strange dialectic of Communist Russia, yes was rapidly becoming no. An old Stalin-line man could no longer remain indifferent. Last week Tass News Agency reported the end. In his luxurious apartment, Alexander Fadeyev shot himself. The cause, said Tass, was chronic alcoholism and "grave mental depression...
...uniform. From the moment his leave-train begins puffing towards Przemysl one autumn day in 1943, Andreas is haunted by the irrational idea that he is a bridegroom of death being rushed into one of destiny's shotgun weddings. As the car wheels click, he blows a mental farewell kiss to a field of flowers, a scrap of music, a patch of sky. In Author Böll's deftly understated handling, all that might be mawkishly sentimental in Andreas' goodbye to life develops instead the percussive pathos of Lear's grief-crazed cry over...
...most valid objections to the signing off proposal come from the Housemasters, who feel that such a plan would hurt the house system. One of the basic premises of the existing system is that by collecting undergraduates to eat, a valuable mental collision is generated, which is lost by those who eat in clubs or local restaurants. Undeniably this is a potent argument against the change as it applies to lunch and dinner, not to breakfast. Certainly most students who miss the morning meal do so in order to stay in bed rather than to find better company or menus...