Word: mentalism
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Agility has long been the name of the game in defining diagnostic categories. In 1973 the psychiatrists placated a powerful gay lobby by deciding that homosexuality, "per se," is not a mental disorder. This left in limbo those homosexuals who are dissatisfied with their condition. So the association created "ego-dystonic homosexuality," the world's first mental disorder that is only a disorder if the afflicted person thinks it is. DSM-III, published in 1980, officially listed tobacco dependence and transsexualism as disorders. "Tobacco dependence" may have been discovered to be a special disorder, worthy of its own category...
...more likely to have complications related to prematurity, than mothers aged 20 to 24." All of this adds up to twice the normal risk of delivering a low-birth-weight baby (one that weighs under 5.5 lbs.), a category that puts an infant in danger of serious mental, physical and developmental problems that may require costly and possibly even lifelong medical care...
...Holland, sex is similarly demystified. While the country has no mandated sex-education program, teens can obtain contraceptive counseling at government-sponsored clinics for a minimal fee. In addition, the Dutch media have played an important role in educating the public, says Dr. Evert Ketting of the Dutch Mental Health Center, citing frequent broadcasts on birth control, abortion and related issues. "We've been told that no Dutch teenager would consider having sex without birth control," says Guttmacher Spokeswoman Jane Murray. "It would be like running a red light...
...days after the attack, the police arrested David Rice, 27, who was located on a tip. He was also photographed using Charles Goldmark's bank card by a bank-teller camera. Rice, an unemployed steelworker with a history of mental troubles and a record of two arrests for indecent exposure, had reportedly become fascinated with anti-Communism and anti-Semitism. Police found stacks of material on Communism and Judaism, as well as information on the Goldmark family, in the apartment where he was staying. Prosecutor William Downing said Rice seems to have attacked the Goldmarks in the belief that they...
...California in 1970, it was hailed by many for permitting a marriage to be dissolved simply through one partner's decision to do so. It thus promised an end to the unsavory courtroom squabbles in which husbands and wives tried to prove each other guilty of infidelity or mental cruelty. Today some version of no-fault is the law in every state, although most do not permit divorce quite so easily as California...