Word: schizophrenia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professors, he drew in faculty members from sociology, biology and the behavioral sciences. The expansion associated him with Yale Sociologist August B. Hollingshead, and in 1958 they published Social Class and Mental Illness. The book made the point that a severe emotional disturbance was likely to be diagnosed as schizophrenia and lead to confinement in a state hospital if the patient was poor, but diagnosed as a "personality problem" and treated in the office by a private psychiatrist if the patient could afford it. It was a natural progression from that to the establishment of the Connecticut Mental Health Center...
...main theme of Elon's book is the ambiance of "moral schizophrenia" regarding the guilt for Germany's past. In West Germany it is always "they," the Hitler government, who committed the crimes; in East Germany it is always "they," the present West German government, who are assigned the guilt...
...scholars a greater say in what goes on in Washington--something they have long looked forward to. One of the problems of our geographic location, he continues, is that when intellectuals go to work for the government they are separated from their academic work -- causing a kind of schizophrenia. Harvard has always supported the idea of closer relations between Cambridge and Washington as can be seen from a series of Harvard institutions -- the Graduate School of Public Affairs, the Center for International Affairs, the Neiman Fellows, and a number of Business School programs. Most professors at Harvard are no farther...
...happy case of schizophrenia, the skaters can be in critical condition in the ECAC while riding high among the Ivies. At present. They are a game behind Cornell, which had trouble beating Princeton, 3-1, two nights...
...special sort of strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable position. He cannot make a move, or make no move, without being beset by contradictory pressures both internally, from himself, and externally, from those around him. He is in a position of checkmate." Before schizophrenia can be better understood and its treatment improved, psychiatry itself must undergo a deep change, Dr. Laing believes. He insists that a mental hospital is no place to treat a schizophrenic because there the psychiatrist has to play his role according to doctor-patient rules...