Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's leading psychiatrists assembled in Zurich last week for the Second International Congress for Psychiatry, TIME'S Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant was there, to listen to their latest findings on the urgent problem of mental illness. For his report, see MEDICINE, Meeting on the Mind, The Big Sleep and Schizophrenics International...
...Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge would propose a resolution calling upon Russia and the puppet Kadar government to "desist from repressive measures against the Hungarian people." Nobody had much hope that the resolution would help the Hungarians. What it might do is to keep alive in the world's mind and heart the awareness of Soviet cruelty and treachery. Such a reminder may be necessary when the Russian delegation starts filling the air with denunciations of Western activity in Algeria, Oman and Syria. In fact, the British Foreign Office last week described the flurry of Russian notes about the Middle...
...divided mind." Bleuler (1857-1939) was not satisfied with the rigid 19th century view of "dementia praecox" as a single, precisely definable disease whose victims were doomed to progressive deterioration. In 1911 he characterized the various forms of withdrawal from the real to an unreal world as "a group of schizophrenias." Most importantly, he insisted that continuous deterioration was not inevitable...
...Nathan S. Kline, who introduced iproniazid as an energizer, suggested that it may prove as important as all the tranquilizers combined in releasing big numbers of patients from hospital wards. Then, taking a flying leap into the future, he foresaw a brave new world in which mind-improving drugs will be used not only to alleviate illnesses but to improve the performance of the healthy...
...hold: an employee restaurant, a clinic, a library, a clubhouse, a credit union. Profit-sharing, retirement benefits, summer Saturday closings, systematic job evaluations, even sending executives to the Harvard Business School-all were pioneered by the Filenes. Said Lincoln: "Every release of the worker to more use of his mind, every addition to his skill, means steadily better wages. Society can well afford to pay a steadily rising wage bill so long as it is steadily enriched by new intelligence...