Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...product, or service performed, but the effect the activity itself has on the patient's disability, e.g., woodworking may be indicated because the bicycle saw used exercises the leg muscles in a special way; or painting because the canvas serves as a medium for the mental patient to express feelings he can't put into words. On the other hand, a patient may be given contract work (at union rates) under the supervision of an occupational therapist. The real-work type of O.T. is practiced here as well as in the Soviet Union, contrary to TIME...
...their first wedding anniversary the Mays were remarried in the Roman Catholic Church to please Anne's parents. But the marriage was already beyond salvage. In 1957 Anne tried for a church annulment and failed; Martin then got a divorce on the ground of mental cruelty. Anne no longer enjoyed the life of a Hollywood bachelor girl. "One can always be popular with the boys," she says, "but the rules are different in Hollywood than The Bronx. Out there you play for keeps...
...role on "the healing team," stressing the relation of religion to a patient's health. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen lectured to the medical students on the details of their faiths so that the future doctors might collaborate in aiding the spiritual as well as the mental and physical health of their patients. The following year a course was added for ministerial graduate students in which they study medicine, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, watch operations, and spend five to seven hours a day as chaplain-interns, counseling the sick and their families under strict supervision...
...call it spiritual therapy," says the Institute of Religion's director, Methodist Minister Dawson Bryan. "You can separate hydrogen from water, but then you haven't got water any more. For years doctors have been treating man's mental and physical ailments, but have been ignoring the spiritual part of him. You can't separate these entirely without destroying the whole person...
Silent Night, Lonely Night (by Robert Anderson) tells of two people in a New England inn on Christmas Eve. Strangers in adjacent rooms-Barbara Bel Geddes has a son in a prep-school infirmary near by, Henry Fonda a wife in a mental sanitarium up the hill-they come together out of loneliness, are at first trivially autobiographical, then more and more confidingly so. They have a drink with newlyweds, look back on marriage that has come to grief, resist pity and show twinges of self-pity, talk of love and resist sex. The woman, it turns...