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...first primarily a center for personality research. However, in 1946 the Veterans' Administration, faced with thousands of returning shell-shocked G.I.s began to fund graduate programs in university psychology departments to train non-medical psychotherapists to cope with the needs of these veterans. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) added more money for these clinical training programs beginning in the 1950s. These Federal grants allowed Harvard to expand the Plympton Clinic into a full-fledged program in research and clinical training in abnormal psychology...
Died. Robert L. Conly, 55, senior assistant editor of the National Geographic magazine, who under the pen name Robert C. O'Brien wrote a prize-winning children's book (Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH) and last year's top-rated cloak-and-dagger tale for adults, A Report From Group 17; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...suit is over a proposal by the CCCD to the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) for a million-dollar grant to treat drug abuse in Cambridge...
...NiMH reported, however, that in California, which was first to experience "the onslaught of drugs," marijuana use may well have "crested." In San Mateo County, for example, seventh-and eighth-graders smoked less pot in 1970 than in 1969. Dr. Bertram Brown, director of NiMH, believes that the decline may well presage similar decreases in marijuana use elsewhere in the next few years...
Inconclusive though it is, the NIMH report will provide a starting point for the commission appointed by President Nixon. A 13-member panel of doctors, educators and Congressmen, headed by Pennsylvania's former Republican Governor Raymond Shafer, will make a two-year study of the use and effects of marijuana and then try to answer one of the most sensitive questions now before Congress: Should pot be legalized...