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...mother."* The medical problem then is to decide whether letting the pregnancy take its course is "likely to make the woman a physical or mental wreck," and doctors find it far from easy to make an accurate forecast on this score. So most general practitioners call in a psychiatrist to share the responsibility...
...Worse. Trouble is that there have been virtually no comparative studies showing how many emotionally ill women got better and how many got worse after an abortion-or after a normal birth. In the British Medical Journal, Psychiatrist James Arkle of Reading reported the effect in 18 cases where abortion had been considered but not performed. Three women had become psychotic during previous pregnancies, five had psychoses unrelated to pregnancy, and ten were referred for symptoms usually considered less severe, though three of these had become hysterical in previous pregnancies. A year after giving birth, the mental state of three...
Threats Are Warning. At a round table of the Royal Society of Medicine, doctors came to much the same conclusion. A mentally ill woman's desire for abortion is strongest, they agreed, in the first three months. After that, when the fetus "quickens," said Psychiatrist John D.W. Pearce, the desire to be rid of the baby usually subsides. The G.P., he suggested, can often coax a woman through those first three months. Suicide threats pose a knottier problem. They cannot be ignored. Yet often the woman who voices them most vociferously is using them to lash out at those...
...approved the bill-in a closed-door session of precisely three minutes. ¶ In a 5-to-3 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the right of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to deny passports to Artist Rockwell Kent and Los Angeles Psychiatrist Walter Briehl for refusing to sign non-Communist affidavits. Then four of the judges, putting chips on their shoulders for the Supreme Court to knock off with a Jencks-type ruling, went on to say that confidential Government information can remain confidential in matters of national security and foreign affairs...
When he was back home at 22, his tic returned, and he started cursing again-from ten to 40 times an hour. "By this time," notes Psychiatrist Michael, "both his mother and his sister were refusing to accompany him out of the house." When psychotherapy failed, Dr. Michael tried giving his patient inhalations of carbon dioxide four times a week, hoping to slow down the responses of the nervous system. "The frequency of his utterances decreased," reports the doctor, "and he was discharged from the hospital after 30 treatments." Minus his tic and with an innocent tongue, the patient...