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...court ordered that Steyskal be given a psychiatric examination. Dr. Dana Farnsworth, Director of the University Health Service, several weeks ago called Steyskal "a paranoid...
Steyskal attended the Divinity School in 1953 and 1954. He was reportedly upset because the University had rejected his applications for a teaching position. Dana L. Farnsworth, director of the University Health Services said last week that "the man is paranoid...
...paranoid," explained Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of the University Health Services, who filed the complaint against Steyskal in Boston Federal Court on Friday, when Pusey received the letter. Farnsworth said that the F.B.I. assistance was sought to protect Pusey and to get hospital treatment for Steyskal...
Surprisingly, from the same extract, one got the symptoms of catatonia, with his mind retarded and blocked, while the other got a paranoid reaction with delusions and hallucinations. (The fact that different reactions can be provoked by the same substance in itself raises an intriguing psychiatric question: What causes one subject to become catatonic, another to become paranoid?) Within two hours the effect wore off, and the men have been normal since. Dr. Heath emphasized that his report on only two human cases was preliminary. But it was significant, and his substance will be tested as soon as possible...
...this went, and as was no doubt obvious, I decided to do as little as possible so I wouldn't make a mistake." Six weeks later, the same student tried it again. Once more, he quickly became withdrawn and paranoid. His description: "Complete and insoluble confusion and anxiety reigned . . . One hallucination was that of lying flat on a slowly revolving, cloudlike object, and there were other similar objects all around, touching gently and revolving 'in gear.' I just slowly rolled down into the depths of the arrangement. Another was of a flowerbed type of pattern, or perhaps...