Word: schizophrenias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fewer than nine of the 17 men in Group A had histories of acting out their aggressive urges at the drop of a hat. Five others had disorders resembling schizophrenia. Fifteen had an attitude of rejection toward the expected child. The emotional symptoms that developed in this group were either severely neurotic or borderline psychotic; 15 became so anxious and irritable that their usefulness to the Air Force was impaired; and eight were depressed-two of them so severely that they attempted suicide. There were some signs of accident proneness, stomach upsets and hypochondria...
They showed "lunatics" lying half-naked in filthy pens, or fighting like starved wolverines when a heartless jailer tossed them a moldy crust. Some inmates were in chains; some were being beaten. More astonishing than the play were the players : housewives and secretaries suffering from involutional melancholia or agitated schizophrenia, mechanics or plumbers in manic-depressive states. Among them, confined by court order, were conmen, kleptomaniacs, counterfeiters, and even some who had committed homicide...
...Schizophrenia. In Akron, Personnel Counselor Mrs. Dorothy Burke, 46, was charged with passing a bad check, despite her on-the-spot psychoanalytical reading of police, who won her professional verdict as 1) basically kind, 2) gruff outside, but with a heart of gold...
...with which we can in the most facile manner explore the themes of Gullible's Travels Thru Harvard (hereinafter referred to as gttf 1). Primitivism, atavism, satiricism, and fancifulism are the four poles about which we must revolve, slowly and steadfastly. Admittedly, such an approach requires a temporary spatial schizophrenia, there being only two poles per world in accepted naturalistic schematization. Never mind, because it we are to adopt this attitude, we must merely become a kind of eternally pendent deus ex machina, which many of our genre before us have done with considerable self-gratification and emolument...
...designed on the pattern of a clip-joint nightclub," charging as much as 60? for a couple of aspirin tablets that they buy at 60? per 1,000. "If the voluntary hospital system is to continue," warned MacLean, "shock therapy is needed to cure it of its schizophrenia...