Word: schizophrenia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tenth Man takes on obligations it does not meet. Far from turning fantasy into vision, it fails to save it from sentimentality. Not only are all the play's characters uniformly nice, but exorcism seems a convenient miracle drug, and the happily vanishing young couple suggests the schizophrenia of playwrights who would give meaning to their words and eat them too. In certain ways, The Tenth Man suggests the fine stories of Jewish Fantasist Bernard Malamud (TIME, May 12, 1958) but in the ways that count most, it falls far short of them...
...Podola's were a case of schizophrenia, said Edwards, he would have been 100% indifferent to everything and everybody. But the "Selective" fashion in which Podola could recall certain things from the past tended to confirm that he suffered only from hysterical amnesia. Podola, Edwards argued, was in the grip of what psychiatrists call la belle indifference-a "couldn't-care-less attitude about some things but not all things." As an example, Edwards pointed to the gesture-"absolutely incredible in a man with emotional awareness"-with which Podola had alluded to the possibility of hanging...
...been an eventful five weeks since Ole Earl made his profane departure from Baton Rouge to be committed to a sanitarium in Galveston for treatment of schizophrenia (TIME. June 15). It had been an eventful eight days since Long forced his release from an insane asylum, made a travesty of Louisiana's mental-health laws, and reinstated himself as Governor in a motel room near the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. Milestones in the hectic trail between the Pine Manor Motel and the Governor's mansion: ¶ With his bony feet sticking out of the sheet that covered...
...were members of the Fuchs spy ring). He had not felt that he was betraying his adopted country or his many British and U.S. friends, said Fuchs, because he was able to keep his Communist and democratic loyalties "in two separate compartments" by a process he described as "controlled schizophrenia...
...Searles that "the individual becomes schizophrenic partly by reason of a long-continued . . . unconscious effort on the part of some person or persons . . . to drive him crazy." It would be inane to suggest that this is the only cause of the varied and complex conditions lumped together as schizophrenia, Dr. Searles admits in the British Journal of Medical Psychology, but it is frequently a factor...