Word: mentally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grigorenko's first outburst in 1961 -a criticism of the "Khrushchev cult" -eventually resulted in his discharge from the army followed by his commitment to a mental hospital for 14 months as a schizophrenic. This is a favorite Soviet punishment for dissenting intellectuals, short of shipment to a labor camp. Since then, because of his age, disability and service record-he had risen from private to general in 34 years and was a distinguished division commander in World War II-the government has merely admonished him for his outspokenness. Anti-Soviet agitation, however, is a serious charge. The possible...
...Association in Bal Harbour, Fla., last week, Dr. Leon Salzman of Georgetown University Medical School noted that, contrary to popular thinking, a large number of adulterers are neither anxious nor conscience-stricken. With ridiculous ease, these philanderers convince themselves that an affair is either necessary to maintain their own mental health or a device for allowing them to tolerate a barely compatible husband or wife while still remaining married...
Crisis intervention is not a panacea for mental illness. It does not benefit the patient whose emotional problems, however upsetting, are not overwhelming -the so-called normal neurotic who either applies for long-term therapy, if he can afford it, or else manages to live with his problems. Many therapists flatly reject it-and so do some patients. Says Detroit's Danto: "Often you have to talk your way in. They don't see you as the Ajax knight coming in to zap them clean...
Checkers with a Catatonic. Crisis intervention is the most successful technique developed so far by the rapidly expanding community mental-health movement. In addition to professional psychiatrists, crisis centers are staffed by a team, including nurses, social workers, lay therapists and clergymen. "The techniques we use are totally unrelated to psychoanalysis," says Dr. Barry Decker, director of clinical psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital. "The staff takes an active role with patients. Anyone on the team might be able to set up such a rapport that they could play checkers with a catatonic the doctor couldn't even make...
...fellow investigators argue that linguistically it is as rich and diverse as standard spoken English. Many white Americans were astonished when Muhammed Ali, who earned reams of sports-page attention with his endless flow of doggerel, flunked an Army intelligence test. Psychologist Stephen Baratz, of the National Institute of Mental Health, insists that there was really nothing particularly surprising about his jab at poesy: Negro children usually start playing improvisational rhyming games shortly after they learn to talk...