Word: nimh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unique in awarding funds to college extra-curricular activities, the NIMH plans to follow the PBH work closely as a "test case" to determine whether the project can be undertaken by other colleges...
David Kantor, research associate in Social Relations and director of the PBH program, said that the NIMH was attracted by the students' work on mental health and is experimenting with the feasibility of such grants...
...historical account of PBH work and a general analysis of the college students' role in mental health, written by four College students, was a direct influence upon the NIMH in securing the grant, according to Kantor...
...Probably NIMH's biggest boner was in trying to ignore the tranquilizing drugs. Its top brass are accused of being too Freudian ("Analytically oriented," as they put it) and scarcely interested in anything so humdrum as drugs for the mind. Instead of setting up rigidly controlled studies to evaluate the drugs, they appointed committees that belittled them. Last year Congress rammed $2,000,000 down NIMH's throat and ordered it to get going on a comprehensive tranquilizer evaluation. The work is hopefully scheduled to begin in July-only three years late...
Stiff Questions. One diagnosis of NIMH's current troubles is that Clinical Director Cohen is highly permissive for a father-figure and tries to give subordinates a free hand in working with patients. But even this permissiveness ran out when Psychiatrist Scher made ambitious demands for guarantees of space, facilities and money to continue his experiment in treating schizophrenics "tough." Cohen ordered the six patients in Scher's special project transferred to a state hospital, provoking angry protest from their families. Last week a congressional subcommittee" on appropriations handed Director Felix a set of stiff questions...