Word: schizophrenias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early success with this type of case prompted the Montreal doctors to try chlorpromazine on schizophrenia victims. Some types of schizophrenia are marked by extreme excitement and by persecution delusions. It was in these types that Dr. Lehmann found chlorpromazine most effective; most patients calmed down dramatically, and many lost so much of their fear and anxiety that they could easily talk about their troubles. Again patients' responses varied widely; the longer the illness had lasted, the less likely was it that the patient would recover enough to go home. In the U.S., 300,000 schizophrenics fill about half...
General MacArthur has disclosed a deep-seated schizophrenia with respect to the subject of war and peace . . . A basic split in the mind and heart of this great soldier seems to have characterized his thinking throughout his career. In 1931, when he was Chief of Staff of the Army, he excoriated a group of clergymen for their pacifist position . . . Yet this is the same man who . . . foisted upon the Japanese people a new constitution outlawing war altogether . . . The question is which MacArthur are we to believe? MacArthur the soldier, patriot, nationalist-or MacArthur the author of the Japanese constitution...
...practice on the side, which keeps many specialists out-and more specialists is precisely what the VA needs. One growing attraction to doctors is the VA's impressive research program and such well-equipped centers as Sawtelle. where ,they can go on studying anything from cancer to schizophrenia...
...practice, though often unacknowledged, has been conceded by the late A. A. Brill, leading U.S. Freudian, who called him "the pioneer psychoanalyst in psychiatry." Freud thought that analysis was useful only in the milder forms of emotional illness (neurosis). Jung was among the first to use it to interpret schizophrenia, commonest of the most serious psychoses (which fills 300,000 hospital beds...
Results of early treatment by analysis were only tentative. But then came insulin and metrazol, and now, in the last two years, have come two new drugs, chlorpromazine and reserpine, which are making thousands of supposedly hopeless cases of schizophrenia accessible to analytic techniques...