Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vaillant said yesterday his work, begun in 1938 by Arlie Bock, then director of University Health Services (UHS), tended to "confirm a lot of old wives' tales which maintain that good mental health preserves one's physical health...
Through periodic surveys examining the physical and mental status of the men, Vaillant showed that poor mental health preceded the onset of illness...
Despite his dark brown tresses, Gauthier has become a nationally competitive swimmer with great mental intensity and the drive of a racehorse...
...deliberate isolation of the Americans both from one another and from the outside world. They were not allowed to talk to one another, and in some cases were tied to chairs facing the wall so that they were denied even the sight of anyone else. This form of mental torture brought a sharp protest from visiting Papal Representative Monsignor Annibale Bugnini. To determine any possible psychological damage, the hostages were given psychological examinations on their arrival in Germany...
...judge has just given a boost to one group of testing reformers. In San Francisco, U.S. District Court Judge Robert F. Peckham last month ruled that California could not use the common Stanford-Binet IQ test to screen pupils for placement in a special program for the "educable mentally retarded." California's EMR program is 25% black, although blacks make up only 10% of the statewide school population. Even under the improbable assumption that black children have 50% more mental retardation than white children, said Peckham, the EMR enrollment pattern had just one chance in 100,000 of occurring...