Word: schizophrenias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harriman, although his lieutenants wooed them assiduously. Said one Democratic politician: "There is a basic schizophrenia in the Harriman camp that just defies explanation." Actually the explanation was simple: as it must to all active Democratic candidates, the segregation issue had caught up to Averell Harriman...
...analysis: "Deep psychotherapy is as dangerous as deep surgery. The technique of deep analysis seems to be to lead the patient along the very brink of the abyss, hoping that he will not fall in-something like Dulles' diplomacy." Finally, affirming his own faith that the problem of schizophrenia will be solved by the biochemist, he quoted Boston's late great neurosurgeon Dr. Harvey Gushing: "The task of the psychiatrists is to get back into the asylums and laboratories which they are so proud to have left behind them, and prove . . . that their concepts have scientific validity...
...waxy flexibility, looked dazed and out of contact, and would stare into distant corners of the room gesticulating and grimacing inappropriately so as to suggest that they might be hallucinating." The monkeys' brain waves became almost identical with those of severely schizophrenic patients. Was this the key to schizophrenia, which keeps more than 300,000 victims locked in state hospitals...
Since monkeys cannot talk, and schizophrenia is described in psychological terms dependent on patients' reporting, Heath and co-workers decided to take the next step and test the serum extract on human volunteers. Two were found at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Carefully examined by psychiatrists, they showed no trace of latent mental illness. Given only the same tiny dose as a seven-pound monkey, the men developed similar symptoms within five minutes, reaching a peak after about half an hour...
Thus, Cincinnati's Dr. Howard Fabing told a Manhattan meeting of drugmakers this week, was born a favorite tool of psychiatric research. Psychiatrists may still puzzle over the nature and cause of schizophrenia, but at last they can turn on and off, at will, psychotic episodes which have most of the earmarks of natural mental illness. (For the turning off, psychiatrists use peace-of-mind drugs, e.g., chlorpromazine and Frenquel, and can snap a patient out of an artificial psychosis within minutes.) On a Revolving Cloud. Among a dozen U.S. medical teams researching LSD, one is headed...