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...Ohio State University's Professor (of Pediatrics) Hilda Knobloch told it, she and Psychiatrist Benjamin Pasamanick had reasoned that more mentally deficient children would be born in late summer and early fall, because virus infections, which can damage the fetus, are commonest in winter. But when they checked the birth dates of nearly 6,000 mentally deficient children born in Columbus from 1913 through 1948, they found, on the contrary, least mental deficiency among babies born in August, September and October. It was commonest among those born in the year's first quarter, with the peak among February...
Webster neatly summarizes the conventional, science-minded attitude: an approach to truth that bypasses "ordinary sense perception" adds up to nothing but "vague speculation." Yet mystics-the experimentalists of religion-may not seem so unscientific to a mid-20th century psychiatrist. This is the case in a new book, The Cloud of Unknowing (Julian Press; $4), a psychologist's rendition of one of the great mystical classics of Christianity...
...Milton Edgerton, 36. He reported that in three years he has operated on 32 women, aged 28 to 38. All were married, and all were emotionally upset by what Dr. Edgerton called "a local anatomical fixation" on their small breasts, though he had them screened by a psychiatrist to be sure that none had more deep-seated mental illnesses (an equal number were turned away on this score). Instead of natural fat, Dr. Edgerton used a form of built-in falsies made of a poly vinyl sponge called Ivalon. Checked by psychiatrists after their operations, all patients showed a reduction...
Occupational Therapy. In South Shields, England, after a juvenile court sent a 16-year-old petty thief to a psychiatrist in the hope of finding out what made him steal, the doctor reported that the boy had swiped $2.80 during the consultations...
...Farnsworth, Director of the University Health Services, outlined a plan for academic mental health, suggesting that teachers can effectively counsel students without attempting to assume a psychiatrist's role...