Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost nothing. No one felt like working, or selling, for piles of nearly valueless paper money. In one drastic piece of surgery, Bizonia's economic authorities called in all the old currency, issued only one new mark for ten of the old. Along with this severe bloodletting, the patient was given his economic freedom: all price ceilings were lifted, except for basic foods, coal, iron and steel...
...patient's confidence in his doctor is an essential ingredient of successful medical practice. The recent report of the University Student Hygiene Committee and the continuing current of student sentiment against the Hygiene Department indicate that at Harvard this ingredient is lacking...
Psychotherapy (the treatment of mental illness) includes other surprising-and less unpleasant-methods. At the Menninger clinic, for instance, doctors might prescribe, for a depressed patient, "two weeks of unsolicited love." This means that the patient's doctor and nurses should treat him with the full measure of brotherly love that he needs but does not know how to ask for. Psychiatrists also use music as a soother, and such "occupational therapy" as publishing newspapers, carpentry and jewelry-making...
Bacteria & a Mother-in-Law. Very few -only one-tenth-of U.S. psychiatrists are out & out psychoanalysts. But any psychiatrist may try to find out a patient's troubles by thoughtful questioning. Dr. Will Menninger describes himself as a "psychodynamic psychiatrist." Says he: "The distinction between Freudian psychiatrists and non-Freudians is becoming infinitesimal. Dynamic psychiatry is being accepted more & more widely ... In other words, people are beginning to see that damage of the same kind can be done by a bullet, bacteria or a mother-in-law." The extreme Freudian approach, he thinks, is "almost metaphysical." Although strong...
State hospitals throughout the U.S. are, in general, scandalously crowded. Thousands of mentally disordered patients are forced to live like animals in bare, foul-smelling rooms. There is an average increase of 12,000 a year in the state hospital population. Today, 41% of all hospital beds (580,273 out of 1,400,318) are for mental patients. The cost is an indication of the care given to "public charges": state hospitals, on the average, spend about $1.50 a day per patient. The cost at Menningers...