Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Details about the experiments' subjects were not available. Kyio Morimoto, associate director of the Bureau of Study Council who was one of the researchers, said he and the other researchers in the Massachusetts Mental Hospital study were unaware of the money's source...
Just what did Martha have to do with it all, since she was telling her husband John at the time that the Nixon crowd was up to no good? Says Nixon: "She just had a mental and emotional problem that nobody knew about. If it hadn't have been for Martha, there'd have been no Watergate, because John wasn't mindin' that store. He was practically out of his mind about Martha in the spring of 1972. He was letting Magruder and all these boys, these kids, these nuts, run this thing...
...Andrei Sakharov, signed an appeal to the gathering asking for condemnation of Soviet psychiatric abuse. A few of the dissidents showed up at the meeting, including former Leningrad Psychiatrist Marina Voikhanskaya, who marched to the stage to present the meeting with a "white list" of Soviet political victims in mental hospitals and a "black list" of psychiatrists who put them there. Voikhanskaya, who has been living in England since she emigrated in 1975, pleaded with delegates to "help hundreds of psychiatrists in the Soviet Union who have been drawn into crime only because they lack the courage...
...member Soviet delegation boycotted the debate over the censure -"We consider it rigged," said one delegate-but argued outside the halls that the charges were preposterous. After Dissident Mathematician Leonid Plyushch appeared at a press conference and told of his harassment and incarceration as a mental patient, Babayan said "Plyushch is mentally sick. Now that he lives in the West, you will see him and study him in the future. There never was a single case when a healthy person was placed in a mental hospital...
Liza, pursued by demons, scuttles through Toronto's streets in nightgown, robe and clogs. She is a skinny, funny little thing who looks about ten years old, though she is twice that. She jaywalks so endearingly that when we learn she is on the lam from a mental hospital, we are firmly on her side. No one that cute could be crazy...