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Word: mental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pure horror than anything else on TV. In the season's two-hour premiere episode, Lucifer tried to take over a convent in France. Before the overstuffed plot spun out of control, there were some startling set pieces: a possessed nun literally climbing the walls and patients in a mental ward going wild and murdering the staff. The show also managed to write one of its regular characters out of the series in possibly the screwiest manner in TV history. After being possessed by the devil, the fellow was transformed into a little boy and returned to his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Invasion of The Wild Things | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Lately, Harvard's women soccer players have been abusing their mental...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: A Season of Hex, Sighs and Videotape | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

...begin with, he's never given me a set of mental blocks for my birthday. He doesn't administer electroshock therapy when I'm naughty. And I don't have a driving desire to marry my mother...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Daddy Dearest | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

First, there are those who argue that psychiatry itself is an illegitimate discipline. Dr. Thomas Szasz, for example, wrote in his book The Myth of Mental Illness, "It is customary to define psychiatry as a medical specialty concerned with the study, diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses. This is a worthless and misleading definition. Mental illness is a myth...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Daddy Dearest | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

Still, people always ask me, "Doesn't your father analyze your every move? Doesn't he have an interpretation for everything? Isn't he always using mental tricks to get you to do stuff...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Daddy Dearest | 11/1/1989 | See Source »

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