Word: mentality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This year, the Eastern Sprints (a qualifier for the Nationals) will be held on May 19, during exam period. "We come to the Sprints with a mental disadvantage," says Hale. "We have to forget about exams...
Psychiatrists have long assumed that depression is the most common mental problem in the U.S. That assumption is wrong, according to a $15 million six-year survey on psychiatric ailments conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Anxiety disorders, including phobias, panic disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorders, are the most widespread, say the survey results, afflicting 13.1 million Americans, or 8.3% of adults 18 years of age and over...
...study, by far the largest and most thorough of the 80-odd major surveys to take the psychic pulse of America since 1900, reports that during a given six-month period, one in five adults, or about 29 million people, suffers from mental problems. Only a fifth of those affected had recently sought professional help, mostly from general physicians rather than mental-health specialists...
...NIMH interviewers questioned nearly 10,000 people living in and around Baltimore, St. Louis and New Haven. The responses were fed into computers and checked against criteria for 13 or more mental disorders listed in the American Psychiatric Association's latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Other sections of the survey, covering 2,500 institutionalized patients and some 6,000 people in Los Angeles and Durham, N.C., are expected to be released next year...
...leap from the private wrongdoer--"the poor friend and domestic tyrant"--to the perpetrators of twentieth century evil is the mental gymnastic that underlies the book's analysis Cruelty and its bedfellows, like our private lives, all have public faces...