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Barkley's big chance for the presidential nomination came in Chicago in 1952, but he was 74, and there was great concern about his health. He tried to overcome that handicap. "If I felt any better," he said, "I'd send for a psychiatrist, because I'd know it was mental." When union-labor leaders turned him down in a dramatic hotel room conference, Barkley withdrew, deeply hurt. Two days later he went before the convention to make one of his best speeches and receive a hero's farewell. Harry Truman still believes, according...
...that none of them by itself has cured a single patient; some patients, especially those in hospitals for many years, get no help at all. But granting their limitations, there is no doubt that the drugs have effected a revitalization (if not a Baileyan revolution) in mental hospitals. One psychiatrist after another reported that his hospital had nearly abandoned the use of psychosurgery, electric and insulin shock, tubs, wet packs and restraints. In many state hospitals the former "disturbed wards" are now places of peace and quiet...
...Monkeys. The most dramatic and perhaps most significant of the researchers' forays into new territory was reported at a final dinner meeting on "Frontiers of Psychiatric Research" by Tulane University's Psychiatrist Robert G. Heath. A daring researcher, Heath has long sought clues to mental illness by planting electrodes deep in the brains of monkeys and humans, studying their brain waves and also noting their behavior when a weak current is passed through the electrodes (TIME, April 13, 1953). Now Heath and his Tulane team have found a sub stance in the blood of schizophrenics which they...
...Some people in all age groups like to set fires, but for different reasons, said the University of Southern California's Psychiatrist Stanley J. Geller. He concentrated on preadolescents (six to eleven), found that his 75 subjects were all boys. (The only female firebug he found was a girl of 14.) "Without fail," said Dr. Geller, "the marital relationship of the parents was unstable or really nonexistent. In 77% of the cases the real fathers were extremely hostile, aggressive men who frequently beat their children. In approximately half the children, enuresis [bedwetting] was an accompanying symptom." The Freudian explanation...
Computer experts are fascinated by the question: Will thinking machines ever be as intelligent as the human brains that create them? Dr. W. Ross Ashby of Britain, a mathematically minded psychiatrist, believes that the machines can at least "amplify" human intelligence just as the engine of a bulldozer amplifies the muscle power of the man who controls...