Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Illinois, the nation's fourth largest coal-producing state, some 3,000 angry miners last week descended on the capitol in Springfield to protest the deepening gloom that is settling over the mines. In the rugged Appalachian heartland that reaches from the Virginias to eastern Kentucky, more than 10,000 miners have been idled since last summer, and they are angry and resentful...
Freudian psychoanalysts in particular, who account for only 10% of the nation's psychiatrists, have felt the common unhappiness of post-Freudian deflation. Freudian talk therapy is designed for the less seriously ill, precisely the constituency that has shifted toward quick Pop treatments. A 1976 survey by the American Psychoanalytic Association showed that the average psychoanalyst had 4.7 patients under treatment, down from 6.2 a decade earlier. Applications to the Freudian training institutes are also declining. When Psychoanalyst Herbert Hendin director of the Center for Psychosocial Studies in Montrose, N Y., applied to the prestigious Columbia Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training...
While the scheme had successful aspects, it also brought new problems. Says Robert Michels: "Thirty years ago, 75% of all psychiatric treatment was conducted in hospitals. Today, 75% takes place in an outpatient setting. That's progress." Still psychiatric patients fill 40% of all hospital beds in the nation, and the number of mental patients in nursing homes, prisons and single-room occupancy residences is up. Says Payne Whitney's John Talbott: "We've merely shifted the mentally ill population, not decreased...
...foreign doctors has raised a clamor for legislation by Congress that would stop the influx of poorly trained aliens. If it passes, the state institutions may be left with fewer psychiatrists of any kind. That could be calamitous; for even with these foreign-trained doctors, officials estimate that the nation will be short 9,000 psychiatrists by 1980. Right now there are 3,200 unfilled jobs for psychiatrists at the state hospitals...
...answer, as in so many cases these days, is yes and no. Germany, in particular, has been a veritable font of Protestant doubt for decades. But last week, deciding it had to draw the line somewhere, West Germany's United Evangelical Lutheran Church, which includes half the nation's Protestants, unfrocked the Rev. Paul Schulz for heresy...