Word: mentality
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Taken together, the decisions added momentum to the national "deinstitutionalization" movement, which aims to transfer mental patients from hospitals to halfway houses or even to their families. They also reinforced a growing tendency of federal courts to take control of school districts, prisons and other state institutions in order to enforce certain rights. Last week, however, the Supreme Court overturned the two rulings in a 6-to-3 decision likely to slow both trends...
...decision, written by Justice William Rehnquist, focused on a 1975 statute in which Congress provided funds for certain state mental health programs. Included in the statute is a patients' "bill of rights" that provides, among other things, for "appropriate treatment" in "the setting that is least restrictive of the person's personal liberty." The appeals court had upheld the argument that since Pennsylvania accepted money under the statute, it was obliged to guarantee those rights. Rehnquist disagreed. The bill of rights section "does no more than express a congressional preference for certain kinds of treatment," he wrote...
...play is a broad farce, attacking not only the antiquated sexual mores of our time, but the church, the law, and especially psychiatry, the Modern Religion. The festivities open in the private mental health clinic of Dr. Prentice (Alexander Pearson), who, as the lights go up, is interviewing an ingenue, Geraldine Barclay (Melissa Franklin), for a secretarial post. Under the pretext of determining her suitability for the job, the good doctor has Miss Barclay undress on a couch hidden behind a conveniently placed curtain. Enter Mrs. Prentice (Alexandra Phillips) at this most unpropitious time. While Dr. Prentice silently implores Miss...
...troubled individuals, reliving their 444 days in captivity in recurring nightmares and struggling to cope with interrupted marriages and the demands of normal life. Most of the returnees and their families had resented all this gloomy guessing; some also resented the State Department's continued concern about their mental readjustment. "I feel they're watching us so we can be the subject of a paper," complained Army Sergeant Donald Hohman, of West Sacramento, Calif. "I don't want to be a case study." Said Richard Morefield of San Diego about the Government therapists: "They were prepared...
Presidential Press Secretary James Brady, the most gravely injured, was able to sit up and converse last week, doctors said, but may require a year to recuperate. His doctors hope that he will recover the "majority" of his mental capacity and 90% of his physical. But they worry about a "flattening" of his personality, since the bullet partly lobotomized Brady's brain. Said Dr. O'Leary: "It is possible he could walk with a cane. We do not," he added, "expect miracles...