Word: mentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dunster: Freshman Union Committee, Chairman; House Committee, Chairman; Social Relations Society; PBH, Mental and General Hospital Committees; Junior Usher; Inter-House Debate Tournament...
Munro was then firing shots at his goalie in an effort to find out what Bagnoli could do. And, truth to tell, Bagnoli wasn't faring too well. He had trouble catching the ball with the cumbersome cast on his hand, and had developed a mental block about diving to his right. But although Munro had some serious doubts, he still could not discount Bagnoli. "He can do anything he wants to do," Munro said...
...Security" was the watchword for more than half a century in 99% of both public and private mental hospitals. Gates were guarded to prevent escapes. An attending doctor or nurse had to go through what Dr. Herman B. Snow, director at St. Lawrence, calls "the ritual of the key" to enter a building. Then, jangling a fistful of hardware, he had to repeat the ritual at the door of every ward, at every staircase and elevator. That this security fetish is an illusion is shown by St. Lawrence's experience: it never had many escapes compared with most hospitals...
...Robert C. Hunt, born in Egypt of U.S. missionary parents, was assistant commissioner in New York's department of mental hygiene in 1955 when he went to Europe and first saw open hospitals, including Mapperley. Says Dr. Hunt now: "I saw and was converted. It was like scales dropping off my eyes." In 1957 he became director of Hudson River State Hospital on the edge of Poughkeepsie, 80 miles north of New York City. Of its nearly 6,000 patients, only 16% were then in open wards...
...open door on the second-floor psychiatric ward of this old (1908) building does not mean freedom to walk in and out at will-any more than a patient in the adjoining medical or surgical wards can do so. But nobody is restricted because of mental illness alone: he must show definite signs of disturbance. When he does, the patients (at daily meetings) are usually the first to complain of it, vote to restrict him "behind the clock" (on the boundary wall between ward and corridor). It is by the patients' own decision that razor blades and pointed knives...