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...Psychiatrist Louis Lunsky, who treated many of the trippers, called the Marina del Rey incident the first documented case of mass hallucinogenic poisoning. "The frightening thing is," he adds, "that it could happen again." These days, if an American escapes being hijacked in an airplane, mugged in the street or sniped at by a man gone berserk, he apparently still runs the risk of getting accidentally zonked by the hors d'oeuvres at a friendly neighborhood cocktail party...
...chemist and now to the psychiatrist, lithium is a fascinating substance, the lightest of all the solid elements. Its compounds have had a discouraging history in medicine. Last week, however, lithium carbonate was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of mental patients in the overexcited mania phase of manic-depressive psychosis...
...problem is surfacing in some of the biggest corporations. Yet the causes and cures of executive failure often baffle top managers. They are turning to behavioral scientists, who have classified at least three types of failing executives: >The Early Flameout. Dr. Herbert Klemme, a psychiatrist at the Menninger Foundation, has found that many men go through a "midlife crisis" at about age 35. Just around then, says Klemme, a man often faces the jolting realization that he cannot accomplish all his early dreams, and, more important, begins to think seriously for the first time about the inevitability of death. Some...
Says Meharry President Lloyd C. Elam, a psychiatrist: "If you send a patient home after treating him in the hospital for pneumonia, and his home is badly heated, he'll be back with pneumonia again. So you have to do something about heating his home. Or if you've treated a patient for an infection from a rat bite, it's no use sending him home to be bitten again. You have to do something about the rats. That's where the community medical approach comes...
Like many black poets today, Emanuel reflects revolutionary attitudes most passionately expressed by Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael. The poets also developed their ideas from the writings of the late black psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. Basically, Fanon stated, Africa and the rest of the third world must be freed from the colonialism that developed color consciousness. Past humiliations can only be washed away through violence. Political freedom will bring about a rejoicing in a new black identity...