Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years homosexuality had been listed as a mental disorder in the American Psychiatric Association's official diagnostic manual, and for six years militant gays have objected to being considered mentally ill. In December 1973, the A.P.A. board of trustees voted to remove the label. "For a mental condition to be considered a psychiatric disorder," the board explained, "it should either regularly cause emotional distress or regularly be associated with generalized impairment of social functioning; homosexuality does not meet those criteria...
...million children against common measles between 1963 and 1972 cost the Federal Government about $180 million. But the results were worth the price. The investment, say Dr. John J. Witte and Norman W. Axnick, both of the U.S. Center for Disease Control, has not only saved immeasurable suffering, mental crippling and death, but has also produced a saving of $1.3 billion over ten years. As they figure it, besides the 24 million cases of measles averted, 2,400 lives were saved, 7,900 cases of retardation prevented, 709,000 years of productive life made possible, and there were 78 million...
...York City fireman, and Dominic Byrne, 53, a Brooklyn limousine operator, have signed statements admitting their roles in the eight-day abduction of the 21-year-old Bronfman. Lynch's attorney has asked that his client undergo psychiatric tests, apparently to build a defense of mental incompetence at the time of the kidnaping. Byrne's attorney insists that his client acted out of fear-presumably of Lynch -for his safety, and actually helped Bronfman during his confinement. Although the two suspects have been friends for about ten years, their defense strategies are now clearly in conflict. Neither...
Children confined to mental institutions or reformatories are often sadly neglected by overworked staffs. But far worse, charges Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, they are being "mentally handcuffed and made vegetables" by widespread overdosing with Thorazine and other potent tranquilizers. This week Bayh's Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency is holding hearings on allegations of drug misuse in both private and public institutions for children...
...Mental Occasions. These troubles, and the boisterous episodes they cause, provide the background for what Citrine calls his "mental occasions." They include elaborate discourses on American materialism and the demise of the poetic imagination, the aridity of modern art (Picasso's huge Chicago sculpture is "only the idea of a work of art"), notions about modern boredom as a profound spiritual problem, and ruminations on death and immortality, with special emphasis on Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy, .the study of the divine spirit through scientific inquiry...