Word: mentalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Deal with our issue-filled lives? We read the brightly colored signs on the back of the doors in the bathroom stalls in Lamont. Various hotlines vie for our attention. Does anybody call and say, "Hi, life sucks and I can't handle this"? Do we make appointments at Mental Health Services? Do we drop by the Bureau of Study Counsel? Do we deal with our issues...
...Students frequently seek help in handling the deluge of stressful situations that inevitably arise in their four years at college," says this year's Unofficial Guide. "For guidance beyond the spectrum of issues handled (or ignored) by proctors and residential tutors, the Bureau of Study Counsel and Mental Health Services at UHS [University Health Services] are the places to start. Nearly a third of all Harvard students use Mental Health Services at some point...
...director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, on average about 10 percent of the undergraduate student body uses one-on-one counseling and therapy services annually. An additional 30 to 40 percent of undergraduates participate in workshops, groups, tutoring and advising services. According to Richard Madison of UHS, the Mental Health Services division is "quite busy and well utilized," though no specific statistics are available on undergraduate use, he says. Some students, apparently, are talking out their problems...
Harvard played a very clean game, committingonly two penalties for 25 yards. Beyond that, itmanaged to avoid mental mistakes...
...Payne Stuart '73 treats "Bobby" (as the family called Robert Lowell) as both a biological and literary predecessor, confronting the very madcap hypocrisy running through her bloodline that Lowell did in his poetry--the very hypocrisy that drove the latter many times to violently manic depressive breakdowns in various mental hospitals along the East Coast. However, Stuart sees the situation not as mentally debilitating but as a forum for exploiting her established sense of wry humor and caustically tongue-in-cheek comedy. In a sense, the psychiatrist's diagnosis at the end of the book is actually an excellent summation...