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...riots in remote Reich cities, discontent deep in the underground chambers of the Westwall fortifications (". . . Dugouts are crammed with munitions ... air is foul ... a shortage of food. . . ."). An anonymous physician, just back from Germany, was quoted as saying that Adolf Hitler was under an alienist's care for paranoid manic-depression...
...grandeur) may spread, and that then large groups may become dependent on a paranoiac for their wellbeing. He mentioned, without naming, "a leading American research physician, recently returned from Germany, who tells me that a psychiatrist is in almost constant touch with the Fuhrer . . . that his Excellency suffers from paranoid manic-depression. ... It may be today that power does not so much corrupt as that the process of acquiring it maddens." Dr. Steinmetz also found paranoid symptoms in the "Moral Rearmament" movement engendered by Buchmanism...
...Paranoid types: mentally moody, truculent, quarrelsome, suspicious, tending to have systematic delusions (often of grandeur) but without other symptoms of derangement (paranoia); seldom tuberculosis, often cancer...
...children told them that the teacher was what they termed "cuckoo." A year ago Dr. Emil Altman, chief medical examiner of the Board of Education, was called to see whether Miss Byrne was capable of teaching. After examining her with care, he stated that she was suffering from a "paranoid form of psychosis." At this, Mary Byrne was removed from her classroom, given odd jobs to do in the Training School Library so that she could earn her salary of $3,700 a year, while the Board of Education investigated her case...
...there was a great hue and outcry about Miss Byrne. She had hired a lawyer to get her reinstated to her class room. Her friends said that she had been persecuted, that she had been ousted on prejudice rather than for her inability. "What," they asked, "is a 'paranoid form of psychosis'?" Reporters came to see Mary Byrne. They found her wearing a hat, looking grim, fiddling aimlessly with some papers that some one had given her. To all questions she replied: "I can't say anything-it wouldn't be professional." Another doctor investigated Miss...