Word: mentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freudian theory, said Dr. Mowrer scornfully, "one would expect neurotic and psychotic individuals to have led exemplary, yea saintly lives. The fact is that they typically exhibit lives that have been disorderly and dishonest in extreme degree.'' And mental hospitals, he charged, are full of patients who have had insight therapy-to no avail...
...being switched from rote learning and the "social utility" approach, which make the subject either inscrutable or silly. The new idea is to fascinate children with mathematical concepts and analysis so they can reason as scientists do. San Diego tried it last year, got ,000 children of all mental levels to advance twice as fast. This year a revolutionary new textbook embodying the technique will spread throughout the U.S. Everywhere brighter children are reaching algebra much earlier, sometimes by the sixth grade. ¶ Foreign language study is soaring, especially in elementary schools. Last year the U.S. Office of Education urged...
...Broadening of plans to cover hospitalization for tuberculosis and mental illness...
Ideally, the testing standards for early admittance should include not only mental ability but physical build, health, and social and emotional maturity. Schools are not generally equipped to handle such exhaustive testing, but proud parents would probably be happy to foot the bill for a private psychologist. Over the country, many youngsters who miss the cutoff point attend private schools for a year and then go public in the second grade. In Houston, where the whole matter has been put on a cash basis, eager mothers gladly shell out a special head tax of $90 to break the cutoff rule...
...matters little what a patient is suffering from. Dr. Niehans claims cures of dwarfism in children, underdeveloped genitals or breasts, obesity, mongolism, some forms of mental retardation, absence of menstruation, homosexuality, habitual abortion, low (but not high) blood pressure, cirrhosis of the liver, reduced sexual desire, impotence, arteriosclerosis, and some forms of heart disease. Diagnosis and treatment are decided on the basis of a still controversial urinalysis, in which the proportions of certain "ferments" are supposed to show which glands or organs are out of whack...