Word: mentally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning this somewhat preposterous hobo rode the middle class rails. But as a student at Columbia in the middle '40s, he found that he could no longer groove along those rails. After precocious turns at turning on, dropping out, shipping out and even bugging out (into a mental asylum for eight months), Ginsberg drifted to San Francisco's North Beach in 1953. There he abandoned all vestigial attempts to play it straight. Instead, he decided to "cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. And to keep living with someone-maybe even a man -and explore relationships...
...Blame. Parents of autistic children have never had much reason for hope. Until Dr. Leo Kanner of Johns Hopkins University identified and defined the disease in 1943, most doctors concluded that autistic children were mentally retarded, and could recommend nothing more than packing them off to a vegetable-like existence in a custodial institution. Kanner, taking more careful note of their mental abilities, concluded that the disease was a psychosis. He felt that the condition was innate, but noted that many parents of autistic children were highly intellectual and emotionally cold-"refrigerator parents," as he called them. Other experts...
None of these methods can "cure" autism, the researchers warn. The best that therapy can do now is abate the worst symptoms, allowing children to remain at home with their parents and attend special schools that serve the braindamaged, the retarded, and children with other mental conditions that are more amenable to treatment than autism. The parents of autistics, who make up most of the N.S.A.C.'s 700 members, are lobbying to force all states to provide this kind of care through the public schools. So widespread is the feeling that children with severe mental illness can never...
...examined George's medical records in the light of new medical knowledge are proposing a radically different interpretation. Drs. Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter, her son, suggest in the British Medical Journal that George III suffered from porphyria, a rare hereditary metabolic disorder that can lead to severe mental disturbances...
...some of them the only problem is the undue sensitivity of the skin to sunlight," wrote Professor Abe Goldberg of Glasgow's Western Infirmary in 1966. In others, "the normal life of the patient may be shattered by devastating attacks of abdominal pain, paralysis of limbs, and profound mental upset...