Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swoosh, but with a heavy psycho-social punch packed behind it all. Yet the first shots of Milos Forman's movie--grainy, solemn, self-consciously non-colorful--make clear that this Cuckoo will not foist off a super-super allegory of a nut-fram, but a real Oregon mental hospital, in all its disturbing bleakness and isolation. This interpretive risk pays off, and, except for a few "bigger than life" episodes that don't translate in this true-to-life context, the whole picture comes across with much more sincerity than the Kesey original. And in this troubling, de-romanticized...
...chapter in the book, printed in the current issue of "American Scientists" under the title "A Possible Window on the Minds of Animals," proposes that the ability of animals to communicate may allow humans to discover their mental experiences and intentions...
...Opening our eyes to the theoretical possibility that animals have significant mental experiences is only a first step towards the more difficult procedure of investigating their actual nature and importance to the animals concerned," the article states...
Robert J. Haggerty, Lee Professor of Public Health, said yesterday he is coordinating the joint project by Harvard Medical School, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Massachusetts Mental Health Center...
Under the program, physicians affiliated with the three institutions will interview patients at Brigham Hospital to find out if they are under stress. Those who are will be referred to the Mental Health Center, Haggerty said...