Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another University health official said that academic pressures could also explain the increase in student sickness. Dr. Randolph Catlin, Chief of Mental Health Services at Harvard, noted that several scientific studies have shown that stress can weaken immune responses, which in turn makes people more susceptable to a cold. Still, the doctor said he would not attribute the recent wave of colds on any stress he had noticed at Harvard...
Ramos, who talked softly and slowly in her testimony and appeared extremely weak, said Bernstein insisted that her symptoms were imaginary and the result of mental illness, even though she pleaded with him to tell her "what is happening to my body, what is going...
...Ramos said she sought help at the emergency room of Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, agreeing to pay for care herself. According to the complaint, Ramos informed the emergency room supervisor, Dr. McGinn, that she had tested positive for AIDS, but McGinn recommended that Ramos receive a mental health evaluation...
...normal, common-sense reaction, certainly, but one with uncertain and morally perplexing consequences. Koch has just announced that on Oct. 1 the city will begin the involuntary institutionalization of the homeless mentally ill who are incapable of caring for themselves. The new "self-neglect" rule, as one city official calls it, will loosen the current requirement that the potential patient be an immediate danger to himself or others. This tough standard is common around the U.S. To be accepted in crowded mental health facilities nowadays, says Jill Halverson, a Los Angeles activist, "a homeless person has to be either killing...
...what has come to be called deinstitutionalization. In the mid-1950s the widespread use and effectiveness of the antipsychotic drug Thorazine allowed the denizens of "insane asylums" to be treated outside the hospital where, all agreed, they were better off. The policy satisfied the civil-libertarian instincts of mental health advocates, while conservatives counted up the tax dollars saved. But an optimistically promised second stage of deinstitutionalization was not so easy to deliver: follow-up care in the community frequently failed to materialize. The number of mental patients in U.S. institutions did shrink, though, from a peak...