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...then saw his fifth knocked over the left-centerfield fence by Dan Ford for the new stadium's first home run. With that an annoyed patron released a live piglet onto the field. But then Lefthander May, who was born in Coffeyville, Kans., and once went to a psychiatrist to cure his pitching woes, wound up and delivered a high, tight "moving" fastball to the Twins' Rod Carew, who was born in Panama on a train. Carew, who hits a baseball more consistently, though not farther, than any man alive, swung ineffectually and grounded...
...think that even when we don't formally define such terms as "crazy" we know perfectly well what we are talking about. I shall apply these unscientific terms to anyone who has gone to a psychiatrist in a state of crisis or anyone who has entered a mental hospital. I shall apply them to anyone who suffers from those inexplicable symptoms that seem as common as sunshine: a sense of communion with the supernatural, a sense of whirling lights and mysterious smells, a yearning for violence and the serenity of bloodshed. I shall even apply the term "crazy" to anyone...
...Peter Sifneos, a psychiatrist at Beth Israel Hospital, describes a German treatment for anorexics as "most upsetting to many people, but it has the best results in pounds per weight. The Germans force the patient to stay in bed twenty-four hours a day and don't allow parents or any others to visit. During rounds the whole team--professors, residents, interns and nurses--all give the patient a Germanic lecture on wasting time, being undeserving and taking another person's bedspace, and they tube-feed the patient, through the nose and down to the stomach. As soon...
Masland says the anorexic sees weight gain at puberty as "a distortion and wants to deny her femininity." He says anorexics need "a good relationship with a psychiatrist so they'll develop a strong sexual identity, know who they are and where they're going...
...National Institutes of Health, which operates the Bethesda center.) But most of the time Teddy is remarkably chipper. He likes to read mysteries, watches television, has a citizens' band radio and scans the distant skyline of Washington with binoculars from his sealed 13th-floor window. Says Psychiatrist Stephen Hersh: "He's an emotionally healthy and well-adjusted person...