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...fear of a threat to his personal security is at the root of every person's violence and hatreds. Evil is merely a sickness-a psychic distortion. Education has to be revamped so as to cope with a student's basic psychic problems, and not merely teach him trigonometry or Latin. These problems begin early and if caught in time can be corrected-but not after they explode in violence. Then it is too late. Evil matured is hard to cure...
...tranquilizers and newer "psychic energizers" only the harbingers of a parade of drugs that will cure a wide variety of man's emotional disorders, increase and prolong his mental efficiency, perhaps decrease his need for sleep? This teaser from the psychochemist's dream world was presented last week by New York's Dr. Nathan S. Kline to a Chicago meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association. Eventually, said Dr. Kline, modifications of existing drugs, and others still to be discovered, should lead to progress in these areas...
EXCESSIVE SLEEPFULNESS. "There are individuals who are obsessed by sleep, devoting a disproportionate amount of time to it ... One can only speculate as to why sleep is necessary at all, since no one as yet has demonstrated a biochemical or physiological explanation." A side effect of psychic energizers is that most patients find that they need only four or five hours' sleep a night; some have gone this way for a year with no fatigue. Dr. Kline tried iproniazid himself, found he could do two days' work in one. A good question, he said, is "what the world...
...more efficiency out of human custodians, says Seaton, is by "tricks and dodges" such as printing numbers large and small, or in varied colors and type sizes. Another would be to spot and correct "psychic blindness" (habits and prejudices) in humans who feed information to computing machines...
...psychiatry, Dr. Nathan S. Kline of New York's Rockland State Hospital reported, the drug is equally effective as a "psychic energizer" for long-term hospital patients and the at-large depressed whom he sees in private practice. One woman's depression, which had defied seven years of psychoanalysis and two years of tranquilizers, yielded dramatically to iproniazid. Equally striking is the case of a professor of medicine who suffers from occasional dizziness and constipation on heavy iproniazid dosage, but refuses to cut down because he would rather suffer these than risk a recurrence of the depression that...