Word: mentality
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...evidence in the August trial of his former deputy, Lt. Col. Steven Jordan. Jordan faces six counts and up to 16 1/2 years in prison for alleged cruelty and maltreatment of prisoners, dereliction of duty and other charges. His defense team has already raised questions in court of the mental competence of unnamed prosecution witnesses, one of whom is believed to be Pappas...
...Pappas's mental state in Iraq was first publicly questioned in The Lucifer Effect, a best-selling book by Dr. Philip Zimbardo, the Stanford University psychologist and expert on detention who conducted the well-known "Stanford Prison Experiment" - a 1971 simulation in which students were asked to play the role of guards - and who also testified as an expert witness in one of the Abu Ghraib trials. The book claims that Pappas, who ran intelligence at Abu Ghraib, was declared "not combat fit" after he survived a devastating mortar attack on September 20, 2003 - just weeks before the notorious abuses...
...reproduce the sound of a 50-piece orchestra, hitting as many notes as his 10 fingers can reach together and then filling in the rest with arpeggios and scales. He can shift to a different key midway through a tune, without stopping. He can dip into his mental library of thousands of tunes and come up with surprising hybrids - Mozart in the style of Joplin; Culture Club's Karma Chameleon as Chopin might have played it; Handel's Water Music with a ragtime twist. "Very few musicians can do what he does," says Roger Huckle, the Emerald Ensemble's director...
...Mental Health Services tends to disagree with our self-diagnosis and self-medication, but there are only so many ways to make it through a school like Harvard. We crawl out of here beaten, stripped of our clothes, whipped, and heavy with severe messianic delusions, but we know that we have a degree and the knowledge that at least a portion of the class of 2007 is worth a damn...
...suicidal thoughts, substance abuse and domestic violence. The symptoms "have begun within the last couple of months to manifest themselves," he says. "But I think we still have a significant wave to occur. What we probably have now is a large number of people who possibly did not need mental health services before the storm, but with all the events associated with the storm - the loss of homes, the loss of family members, the loss of community - it takes its toll on people...