Word: schizophrenia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with all of them: they were apathetic, withdrawn, happiest when left alone. They shrank from anything that disturbed their isolation: noises, moving objects, people, often even food. They had what Dr. Kanner calls "early infantile autism"; it is, he thinks, a diaper-age form of the mental disease called schizophrenia (split personality), which may develop before a child is a year old. How did they get that way? Dr. Kanner took a hard look at their parents...
...Schizophrenia (split personality) is the most mysterious, and perhaps the commonest, of mental disorders. It is hard to diagnose, hard to treat, and it accounts for at least 35% of U.S. insane-asylum inmates...
...Harvard remains a university college, as long as the majority of advisers are more concerned with their own research, their own teaching, and their own academic futures than with the fate of their advisees. It will continue to take the College's raw material--and the split, the schizophrenia, the polar extremes inherent in that raw material--and turn it back on its own unequal resources for the important work of planning a Freshman year in college...
...those forces, they produce a student body which is subtle as Sphinx, many-sided and totally lacking in unity of approach or opinion on almost any subject. This breakdown of the undergraduates into group after self-sufficient group is probably the most significant psychological factor in the College today. Schizophrenia, it might be called, and it is unique and potent: not even the most basic conception of "school spirit" serves in Cambridge as it does at New Haven or Princeton to tie atomized particles of the student body together. Here one proud band isolates itself behind the classic walls...
Last week two British doctors announced a discovery that may do more good than warnings: a milder electrical substitute for shock treatments. The new system, called electronarcosis (with which U.S. investigators have also experimented), does not produce convulsions, and has given "distinctly promising" results in treating schizophrenia...