Word: mental
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From all this (and much else besides) I have learned certain lessons which will not meet with your approval: generals are paid to lie and engineer efficient slaughter, soldiers are compelled into the twin insanities of anonymous murder (or, at best, complicity) and the nominal mental illness of post-traumatic stress disorder, it is all shit and lies and death. The personal ramifications are clear: I would not, and could not, defend my country or you or my loved ones or myself. I will not die for any reason, least of all to make my death...
...question has been around for a long time," said Brendan A. Maher, Henderson professor of the psychology of personality. "Others have shown that [success of recovery] is not closely tied to the severity of mental illness. The problem has been identifying the actual link...
Maher said that Hooley's unique approach provides a method for indentifying the factors involved in patient recovery or relapse. Instead of working with patients who have a history of mental illness, as previous studies have done, she has interviewed patients and families soon after the patient enters the hospital for the first time...
Maher added that Hooley's investigations have direct bearing on public policy decisions involving those with mental illness...
...Assassins also offers funny, astutely varied glimpses of looniness, the finest being a park-bench chat between attempted assassins of Gerald Ford: Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, a Charles Manson disciple who is all passion and intensity; and Sara Jane Moore, a former mental patient, who in Debra Monk's stunning evocation is all matronly giggles and chilling folksiness. In other ably written scenes, Victor Garber brings condescending grandeur to Booth, Terrence Mann finds earnest simplicity in Czolgosz, Greg Germann gives a dorky sweetness to Hinckley, and Jonathan Hadary evokes hysterical egomania in Charles Guiteau, killer of James Garfield...