Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resultant absurdities. One, Alberto Lionello, comes sniveling to a doctor friend, bemoaning a sudden attack of impotence. The doctor (Gigi Ballista) trustingly leaves Lionello to keep his wife company while he goes off for fun and games, returns a few hours later to find to his horror that the patient is miraculously cured...
What makes the place different from other halfway houses are the patients who live there. Contrary to the usual practice of taking people who have been in the mental hospital only a short time, Wellmet accepts people whom the hospital has given up as hopeless and whose families have forgotten them. Jean Carmel, the vibrant, charismatic executive director of Wellmet--herself a former director--says that most families with a mentally ill member have struggled so long with the problem that the patient's incomprehensible tantrums and truculence have become "a living thorn in their sides." Therefore when the patient...
Wellmet's immediate practical concern is to find the patient a job or to bring him to the point where he's ready for a job. The theory is that a patient must have a job to survive in the outside world; he must avoid becoming too dependent on the students, and he must learn to fend for himself. Mrs. Carmel says that the most sensitive problem is matching the person to the right job. Some residents are afraid to exercise their full potentiality, taking a dishwasher's position when they are suited to a responsible and creative job, while...
...house is not so ecstatic about its failures. A student says, "we feel guilty when we fail with someone...we don't want to leave anyone in the bin. We do all we can to bring them back." If a patient cannot be on his own after three years at Wellmet, the group tries to make other arrangements for him in a family care home, the city infirmary, or a place for disabled people. A recent resident, a 15-year-old girl, had to be sent back to Met State when the house could not keep up with her constant...
Another incident was precipitated when a resident surprised everyone by signing himself back into the hospital. The students decided that henceforth each would involve himself with a particular resident so as to be able to predict storms. Fortunately the patient returned three days later. The students found that structured relationships were not so successful as the normal give-and-take, but the experience was useful for all concerned...