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...better than a thousand years ago, mental suffering still exists or has gotten worse." Indonesian Delegate Willyse Prachna Suriya was on hand to equate Sukarno's socialism with the teachings of Buddha and to denounce the Malaysians as imperialist stooges. The Malaysian delegates listened with admirable dhyanaic self-restraint...
Gardner commended Harvard's five-year Ph.D. program in history, which includes two years of teaching, and UCLA's plan of awarding reserve funds "to those departments that demonstrate that some importance has been given to undergraduate teaching." He advised universities to "exercise restraint in offering reduced teaching loads as an inducement to move...
...Restraint. But a new legal problem has arisen as a result of the mid-1950s' introduction of tranquilizers that ease savage symptoms. Bars, screams, straitjackets-all signs of restraint are disappearing from mental hospitals as new remedies make mental illness more tractable. The law's new problem is how far to liberalize involuntary commitment procedures at a time when psychiatrists argue for earlier admission (leading to earlier discharge), long before patients become "dangerous...
Some doctors now argue that admission should be governed entirely by medical boards, without interference from lay judges and juries. But lawyers fear that even harmless neurotics might wind up in institutions that are still primarily geared to restraint. The consensus is that involuntary admission should be extended to nondangerous persons only where hospitals are fully equipped to treat early symptoms. On the other hand, state hospitals are allowed to discharge patients without court intervention. In many places, nondangerous patients who succeed in going over the hill and staying free for a year are considered discharged, on the theory that...
...Therefore," it continues, "the present withdrawal of parietal privileges attempts to regulate Harvard students in an area where they have shown themselves capable of self-restraint and self-regulation...