Word: psvchiatric
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...student staff and in its patients, carefully referred to as residents. The project was begun seven years ago by Harvard and Radcliffe volunteers on the Phillips Brooks House hospitals committee who decided that their efforts would be most useful with mental patients. The students moved from the psvchiatric division of Massachusetts General Hospital to the mammoth wasteland of the Metropolitan State Hospital for the Mentally Ill, where in all but a few wards the ratio of patients to psychiatrists is about 600 to 1. The volunteers discovered that patients' responses to individual attention were only sporadically encouraging, and, puzzled...
...loves of individual people." Like Conrad, Agee, and Orwell, he wants to bring the crushed people to life -- a significant pun, because Coles means it both as a writer and as a doctor: to make them "come alive" for the reader, and to make them live. His approach to psvchiatric chiatric problems ties in with his literary style. He shies away from the contemporary eagerness for 'explanation' by categories, and attempts to enter what he calls "the clumsy, undefined, paradoxical flow of life and its events...
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