Word: mentalism
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...other Israelis point out, shelling a densely populated region with imprecise munitions cannot help putting civilians at risk. Huda Ghaliya now lives with her mother and a brother who survived the blast. "She has a masked face, no emotions," says Eyad Sarraj, founder of the Gaza Community Mental Health Clinic. "She will never forget...
...regional rival, Pakistan. But in a breathtaking shift, the Bush Administration in 2004 declared India a strategic partner and proposed a bilateral deal (presently stalled in Congress) to share nuclear know-how. After decades when it hardly registered in the political or public consciousness, India is on the U.S. mental...
...known as antipsychotics or neuroleptics, which have been linked to a host of harmful side effects, including movement disorders. Critics were indignant that a potentially dangerous drug was being used on a hunch, and suspected the influence of big pharma and its drive to expand its markets. "This," American mental health lobbyist David Oaks told Time in 2001, "is one of the most bizarre and counterproductive human experiments on young people I know about...
...With its small number of participants, the trial was inconclusive, but the results were enough to encourage McGorry. With colleagues at a public mental health clinic linked to the University of Melbourne, he began recruiting in late 2000 for a second, larger trial—whose results are yet to be analyzed—while American researchers embarked on similar experiments of their own. Though the voices of outrage were unrelenting, McGorry had a powerful professional ally in friend Thomas McGlashan, director of Yale University's Psychiatric Institute. But that pillar of support has now gone. Discouraged by the results of his own trial...
...attitude" says much less about any flaws in the notion of prevention than it does about "ethical confusion" in American psychiatry. Far from backing off, he says, "We need to think beyond schizophrenia to the issue of access to care for young people with the full spectrum of emerging mental disorders...