Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bazelon, 64, who was appointed by President Truman 24 years ago and has served as chief judge since 1962. A judicial activist, he is best known for his pioneering opinion in the Durham case of 1954, in which he permitted a plea of not guilty by reason of mental illness, thus modernizing the 19th century M'Naghten rule that a criminal defendant could plead insanity only if he did not know right from wrong. In the Durham ruling, the court declared that a man is legally insane if his unlawful act is the "product of mental disease or defect...
...ruling providing guidelines for therapeutic abortions for the indigent on grounds of mental health, and adding: "If every poor person must bring a lawsuit every time her rights are infringed by the insensitivity or ignorance of city and hospital officials, all will be effectively deprived of their rights...
...touch of madness one of the hazards of the parson's profession? It may be, at least among the Presbyterian ministers in the straitlaced Church of Scotland. A recent study of a representative sampling of the church's clergy men claims that fully 68% suffer from "mental, psychoneurotic and personality disorders." Dr. Hugh A. Eadie, a young Presbyterian minister from Australia, made the findings while at the University of Edinburgh, as part of a larger examination of the health of Scottish clergy. The first section of his inquiry determined that ministers enjoyed better health than most other Scottish...
...vacation. They suggested I see a doctor, a head doctor that is, and I was incredulous. Still naive and laughing, I chalked it up to "identity crisis." I returned to Cambridge full of good intentions which lasted all of a week. I ended up, finally, in a mental hospital in Chicago. There they put me through an intensive psychoanalysis and I discovered that I hated...
...aerospace science exam question read, "The human mind is a wonderful organism. It has four abilities. The first two enable us to 'know things.' These are the ability [sic] to-----and to-----. Our other two mental abilities enable us to 'use the knowledge we perceive and retain." These are the ability...