Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stockman's career pattern was simple: find a "rabbi" (mentor in B-school lingo), become his slave until a better mentor comes along, become his slave, etc. The concept of a personal life, or fun, does not seem to part of Stockman's mental vocabulary; only the ceaseless immersion in whichever intellectual orthodoxies seemed most prudent at the time...
...doubts that anything remotely scientific can rise from such a subjective field. But now therapists have a study to cheer about: a six-year, $10 million effort concluding that talk therapy can be just as good as drug therapy in treating depression. Exultant scientists at the National Institute of Mental Health, which funded the project, hail it as a "landmark," and Psychiatrist Jerome Frank calls it the "standard against which all other psychotherapy research will be assessed." Says Herbert Pardes, former director of NIMH: "It is unique in terms of size and the elegance of its construction...
AIDS, first reported in the U.S. in 1979, is a disease that breaks-down the body's natural immune response system and leaves its victims open to opportunistic infections and cancers. Additionally, patients with AIDS frequently develop mental illnesses, such as dementia or meningitis, caused by the AIDS virus. Scientists believe at present that AIDS is caused by a virus similar to herpes called Human T-Lymphotrophic Virus Type III (HTLV-III) which infects the white blood cells. But while the virus has been linked to AIDS, it does not always produce the deadly and debilitating disease. Sometimes, it causes...
Sleep deprivation can take you to mental zones even Rod Serling would avoid, dangling your mind on the cutting edge between psychic revelations and euphoric insanity. And this sleepy intoxication is only one benefit of the Allnighter experience...
Rule One is no artificial stimulants. That includes alcohol, hallucinogens and especially caffeine. Doing it with caffeine is too easy--like riding a roller coaster in the back seat with your eyes closed, shooting fish in a barrel or attacking Reagan for mental incompetence. The true Allnightist prefers a challenge...