Word: schizophrenias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...listening to their own subconscious ideas, which are made audible to them because part of the brain does not work right. Neurologist Walter Freeman and Surgeon Jonathan Williams tried cutting out this part (the amygdaloid nucleus). They found that the surgery freed four patients of "spirit voices." ¶Schizophrenia is 13 times more common among the poor and uneducated than among the educated rich, a Yale team reported. One reason suggested: more "marital and family instability" at lower social and income levels. ¶ Cases of arrested emotional development with lifelong dependence on mother, said Maryland's Dr. Lewis...
...table. He would give factual information, or suggest a line for the discussion to follow; never did he dominate it. If the talk seemed haphazard, it was planned that way. The conferees were the husbands of women who had been clinic patients because of severe mental illnesses (usually schizophrenia); the moderator was able young (30) Psychiatrist Gene Gordon, who wanted the men to talk out their problems for their own good as well as their wives...
...half so bad if hospitals would stop using nurses for orderly jobs, said Marian J. Wright of Detroit's Harper Hospital. A survey showed that 27% of the hospitals studied use nurses to make empty beds, and 18% make them mop floors. ¶ The chance of recovery from schizophrenia, commonest of the serious mental illnesses, has almost doubled in 25 years, the National Association for Mental Health reported. In a survey of New York State institutions, it found a recovery rate (partial and total) of 55%, against...
...until last week, when a grand jury handed up its presentment, did Manhattanites learn the why & wherefore of the wayward bus driver. Bragg had been driving buses for the same company for nine years when, in 1945, he was admitted to Rockland State Hospital suffering from paranoid schizophrenia (severe mental derangement, with delusions of persecution). By year's end he was on the job again: the hospital director declared Bragg "sufficiently recovered to operate a motor vehicle." He was confined for another attack...
Half Angel (20th Century-Fox) tries to play schizophrenia for belly laughs and proves that psychiatry can be mangled as witlessly in a comedy as in melodrama. Its heroine (Loretta Young) is a primly correct girl whose subconscious, taking possession while she sleeps, turns her into a somnambulant femme fatale with a yen for a stuffy lawyer (Joseph Gotten...