Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strings & Circles. An associate of the Psycho-Pedagogic Center of the University of Paris, Trillat has since won the support of doctors, teachers and psychologists for his success in clearing up mental disturbances in children by changing their handwriting. Last week he was in the Paris suburb of Levallois, putting 28 pupils through their paces in what seemed to be an ordinary class in penmanship. But whether he told a pupil to keep on making long strings of , or to concentrate on such rounded letters as a, b, and g, he always had his reasons. At 47, Raymond Trillat...
...show in lower-case letters, and subverting the nation by pointing out in Biographies in Sound that George Washington was not perfect. But Helffrich has found that the principal areas of censorship trouble lie in 1) racial hysteria, 2) obvious salaciousness, 3) excessive violence and 4) irresponsible slaps at mental illness...
Pickers & Choosers. "All good theories go to America when they die." In the case of Freud this was at least half right. With a thoroughness unmatched elsewhere in the world, psychoanalysis has found its citadel in the U.S. its founder despised. Most of the nation's 750,000 mental patients in understaffed state hospitals still are not reached by modern theory or practice. But the progressive states making radical and energetic attacks on the problem of mental illness are doing so under the leadership of psychiatrists who owe most of their orientation to Freud. Even among psychiatrists who confine...
...Better? What does analysis do for patients? Says Hans Jurgen Eysenck, a bright, up-and-coming British psychologist: "I have yet to meet a Freudian who can prove that there is a higher [improvement rate] among neurotics who are psychoanalyzed . . . What evidence they do offer is anecdotal ... In mental cases of all types about three-quarters will recover in about the same period whether they have treatment...
...that with certain stiff reservations, e.g., no encouragement of the idea that there can be sin without subjective guilt, psychoanalysis is a legitimate method of treatment. Protestant and Jewish faiths have lent their support to joint enterprises in psychiatry and religion, such as the National Academy of Religion and Mental Health (TIME, April 9). Jesuits take part in seminars at the famed Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kans. Next fall Union Theological Seminary will install Psychoanalyst Earl Loomis Jr., 35, as its first professor of psychiatry...