Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance for the presidential nomination came in Chicago in 1952, but he was 74, and there was great concern about his health. He tried to overcome that handicap. "If I felt any better," he said, "I'd send for a psychiatrist, because I'd know it was mental." When union-labor leaders turned him down in a dramatic hotel room conference, Barkley withdrew, deeply hurt. Two days later he went before the convention to make one of his best speeches and receive a hero's farewell. Harry Truman still believes, according to his memoirs, that Barkley could...
...general agreement that none of them by itself has cured a single patient; some patients, especially those in hospitals for many years, get no help at all. But granting their limitations, there is no doubt that the drugs have effected a revitalization (if not a Baileyan revolution) in mental hospitals. One psychiatrist after another reported that his hospital had nearly abandoned the use of psychosurgery, electric and insulin shock, tubs, wet packs and restraints. In many state hospitals the former "disturbed wards" are now places of peace and quiet...
...Monkeys. The most dramatic and perhaps most significant of the researchers' forays into new territory was reported at a final dinner meeting on "Frontiers of Psychiatric Research" by Tulane University's Psychiatrist Robert G. Heath. A daring researcher, Heath has long sought clues to mental illness by planting electrodes deep in the brains of monkeys and humans, studying their brain waves and also noting their behavior when a weak current is passed through the electrodes (TIME, April 13, 1953). Now Heath and his Tulane team have found a sub stance in the blood of schizophrenics which they...
...schizophrenia is described in psychological terms dependent on patients' reporting, Heath and co-workers decided to take the next step and test the serum extract on human volunteers. Two were found at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Carefully examined by psychiatrists, they showed no trace of latent mental illness. Given only the same tiny dose as a seven-pound monkey, the men developed similar symptoms within five minutes, reaching a peak after about half an hour...
...consciences were poisoned by the common guilt of Communist intrigue, or 3) to indicate obliquely, by admitting the incredible and fantastic, that they were being murdered. Later study of Soviet police methods, e.g., the Cardinal Mindszenty case, suggests a simpler explanation: the Old Bolsheviks were subjected to physical and mental torture and blackmailed by threat of injury to their families. Few foreigners were permitted to attend the trials, and the official court report bears evidence of extensive editing...