Word: mentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were reported to them by their employers as having 1) intensive drive, 2) profound inclination to compete, 3) persistent desire for recognition and advancement, 4) continuous involvement in multiple and diverse functions subject to time restrictions (i.e., deadlines), 5) habitual compulsion to speed up all their physical and mental functions, and 6) superior mental and physical alertness. For comparison they took an equal number of men of the same ages and physical types, but with the opposite personality type-little drive or desire to compete...
...completion of a book analyzing the student volunteer program in mental hospitals was announced yesterday by James S. Dalsimer '59, Secretary of Phillips Brooks House...
Tentatively titled The College Student and the Mental Patient: An Analysis of a Volunteer Program, the book was started last spring by Andrew P. Morrison '58, Peter R. Breggin '58, Carter P. Unbarger '59 and Dalsimer...
According to Dalsimer, the bulk of the book is a description of volunteer-student relationships from different view-points. It attempts a sociological analysis of the interactions of Mental Hospital Committee members with each other, with the hospital, and with the University. Psychologically, it analyses the motivations and fears of student workers...
...third drug for dropping the blood pressure, mecamylamine (trade name: Inversine), sometimes causes severe anxiety or depression and is suspected of having triggered disabling mental illnesses. Other patients have developed chorea (muscular twitching), with tremor, slurred speech, and difficulty in controlling the joints; in some cases the symptoms have resembled multiple sclerosis; in others there have been severe epileptoid seizures...