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Priming the Pump. Nearly half of the 530,000 Americans in state mental institutions are jammed into hospitals that are so large the patients get no individual care. With a patient-psychiatrist ratio of 360 to 1, effective treatment is almost impossible. The mentally ill remain in the hospitals and get worse. The average stay for schizophrenics is eleven years. With drugs and other new treatments, said the President, two out of three schizophrenics can now be sent home within six months. "If we launch a broad new mental health program now, it will be possible within a decade...
...physiological and psychological. To guard against physiological injury, the researchers tried to find out where physiological injury might occur (e.g., heart or liver), and in early studies, required a medical examination: "Subjects who volunteered for the study were given medical screening by the University Health Services or the prison psychiatrist [some subjects were prisoners], and psychological screening by a group of clinical psychologists." (R.Metzner, G. Litwin, G. Weil, "The relation of expectation and setting to experiences with psilocybin: a questionnaire study," dittoed, 1962). After a period in which no ill effects were reported, Leary dropped the requirement of an examination...
...Court has permitted a taxpayer to deduct the cost of clarinet lessons for a child whose orthodontist recommended them, and a psychiatric patient got away with deducting automobile expenses because his psychiatrist prescribed driving as therapy. But the Court disallowed the cost of dancing lessons for a surgery patient, although a doctor recommended dancing for postoperative therapy. A taxpayer is permitted to deduct educational expenses if they enable him to keep his job, but not if they enable him to get a better job. A specialist in internal medicine, for example, was allowed to deduct the cost of psychoanalysis...
...Soviet Psychiatrist Isaac Goldberg could well understand his colleagues' doubts, but he insisted that he really did have an epileptic patient who could read ordinary print with her fingertips. To prove it, he had Rosa Kuleshova, 22, admitted to the Sverdlov Clinic for Nervous Disorders. There before a skeptical audience, Dr. Goldberg blindfolded Rosa and had the blindfold checked. Then Rosa opened a book at random, passed the fingertips of her right hand lightly over the page, and fluently read the text aloud. She did the same with a newspaper. Handed a snapshot, Rosa stroked the surface and said...
Eighteen months ago, a 19-year-old Sarah Lawrence College sophomore bought a book called Lisa and David, read it, and showed it to her mother. It was a short novel by a Brooklyn psychiatrist, actually little more than two case histories with dialogue, about a curative love that develops between two teen-age children in a suburban mental home. The mother was Eleanor Perry, 46, who had spent the time she could spare from child rearing in writing plays; one of her scripts (The Third Best Sport) had once had a moderate run on Broadway...