Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Writing is hard work for him now: "You go into a dark room ind close the door, and you're alone inside your head." One pulls things out of the mental attic to use in the column, he adds, and the attic is depleted. You don't have time to add much to your store. "How many column ideas are there?" he asks. "There's the plumber, and your teenagers, and your car, and your house. If you're really desperate, you can write about your wife, and then it's time to hang up the typewriter...
Soviet psychiatrists have a nasty habit of declaring dissidents insane and shipping them off to mental hospitals...
Grigorenko, now 70, need not have worried. The old soldier was stripped of Soviet citizenship in 1978, and found asylum (political, that is) in the U.S. Reich and colleagues, including Psychiatrists Alan Stone of Harvard and Lawrence Kolb of Columbia, conducted their elaborate mental and neurological tests anyway. The verdict: the tough, bald-pated general is as solid as the Kremlin's walls, with nary a crack in his mental armor...
...busy hospital record rooms by simply passing themselves off as doctors. Besides learning about a patient's current ailment, the snoops may pick up potentially damaging items from the past, such as a record of bouts with venereal disease, drug addiction or alcoholism, or a family history of mental illness or cancer. Easily copied by duplicating machine and then spread, this sensitive information may eventually appear on the desks of credit and loan officers, personnel chiefs or even college admissions boards...
...patients or to protect themselves against malpractice suits. Says Dr. E. Kash Rose, senior radiologist at Queen of the Valley Hospital in Napa, Calif.: "One study showed that 80% of skull X rays were unnecessary for care and treatment of patients. Rib X rays are done purely for the mental relief of the patient rather than for medical reasons. The treatment is exactly the same" whether the X ray discloses a fracture...