Word: mentalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spokesmen for the mental health division of the University Health Services, when questioned about the effects of the bad weather on students' mental outlook, said that "the weather has no effect on the amount of visits here...
...modules for stereo vision and manual dexterity, for understanding numbers and grammatical speech, for sexual jealousy and romantic love. Don't think of them as "detachable, snap-in components," he cautions. They're not visible to the naked eye "like the rump steak on the supermarket cow display." A mental module, he says, "probably looks more like roadkill, sprawling messily over the bulges and crevasses of the brain...
...civilization that the 500 did not get a rope and march on the police station. Instead, they listened to a local child psychiatrist, who told them, "It's beyond our comprehension." The boy's father, a fire fighter, said he hoped the men would be executed. My own mental sentence upon them (before I calmed down) included execution, but was more vivid and, so to speak, Islamic. Massachusetts has outlawed the death penalty, however, and surely would not countenance what I had in mind...
...voice of the law will have to sort the other voices out. And after all the screaming in our mental auditorium, we acquiesce at last to that. But the screaming itself is exhausting. What have we learned from it? Anything new? Perhaps. But even the knowledge is contaminating...
...moods were elevated by your uncompromising look at current pharmaceutical treatments for mental-health problems. But we found it ironically depressing that the articles made no mention of effective treatment alternatives. Collective research on the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders, including severe forms, strongly suggests that cognitive therapies are just as effective as their chemical alternatives, as well as less costly and safer. Unfortunately, psychotherapies are often overlooked in the mistaken belief that medications are shortcuts to mental health. WILLIAM DANTON DAVID ANTONUCCIO Reno...