Word: schizophrenia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Schizophrenia is not known to be hereditary, but if one member of a family suffers from it, there is a greater than average chance that others will. To find out how a disturbed family affects the children. Psychiatrist Lyman Wynne and colleagues at the National Institute of Mental Health interviewed 33 families in patient detail. In Cincinnati last week, Dr. Wynne outlined his findings...
Communists Embarrassed. Japan's emotional ban-the-bombers suffered less schizophrenia about who was to blame, though the illusion of moral influence still persisted in spots: the conservative Nihon Keizai Shimbun wistfully editorialized that "our fondest hope is for the U.S. to reconsider its decision on resumption, and by so doing compel Russia to follow suit." But even Zengakuren, the extreme leftist student organization whose screaming mobs forced President Eisenhower to cancel his trip to Japan a year ago, turned about and labeled the Russian decision "Stalinist power diplomacy," and began gathering a nationwide petition of protest signatures...
...straitjacket of Pavlov's physiological, conditioned-reflex theories, they could feel no superiority about the availability and effectiveness of straightforward, pragmatic psychiatry in Russia-at least the way the Russians told it. There seems to be about as much mental illness (certainly the handicapping forms such as schizophrenia) in the U.S.S.R. as in the West. But there are many fewer patients in mental hospitals at any one time. Reason: the Russians are taking psychiatry to the patients at the street-corner level. They expect family physicians to make diagnoses and to refer patients to local clinics, where psychiatrists...
...alongside dozing old beggars. Though Grosz was an impeccable draftsman, he used fierce, childlike lines to transform the world into a nightmare of distortion. "I always like to be a little tortured," he said. "You like to laugh, but you also like to be hit. It's the schizophrenia of the German race...
...productions if the performers just mouthed their lines while others read them over loudspeakers from the wings? How many would fill a concert hall to hear a late string quartet of Beethoven played by two oboes, a clarinet, and a bassoon? Why single out the cinema for such artistic schizophrenia? At best, the cinema--I guess it needs to be repeated--is a great art-form, and it deserves to be treated accordingly...