Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...borrowed from family and friends, Gauld bought an old mansion on the Maine coast and set up a school devoted to developing self-confidence and selfdiscipline. Novel and untested, Hyde could not hope to attract outstanding students; thus Gauld started by accepting teen-agers with a history of mental illness or drug problems. The student body now includes less disturbed youngsters. However, all of them, Gauld says, "have problems." He feels such pupils have a greater capacity for growth than conventional, "successful" children...
...over at once, for 28 years past." Body lice were omnipresent, as was the disease they carried-typhus fever. Frequent births and poor obstetrics accounted for the high mortality in mothers; the death rate among black women served by midwives was lower than among whites served by physicians. Mental illness was seen as the work of the devil: the village idiot was either derided or tolerated, while the more violent were shackled and jailed...
...British voluntary hospital was established with the founding of the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1751, the New York in 1771 and the Massachusetts General in 1811, moving the care of the sick poor and the teaching of medical students out of the almshouses. With the founding of the first mental hospital, the Virginia "insane asylum" at Williamsburg, shortly before the Revolution, the mentally ill began to be moved from jails and almshouses to state-sponsored, more humane institutions. Early on, the great cost of mental illness precluded voluntary efforts to cope for people of ordinary means...
...Summer School student entered a state mental hospital Tuesday night after a series of alleged violent attacks on persons in the Harvard area...
...party. Both positions call for a Marshall plan for the cities and direct federal subsidies for lower-income housing. The National Health Care plan endorsed by the Democrats includes most of the specifics of the black delegates caucus's agenda including comprehensive coverage with special mention of mental health and employer-employee payroll tax finances. There is strong support for affirmative action and the platform calls for the declaration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday...