Word: schizophrenias
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...team schizophrenia," Detroit forward Darren McCarty said of the Wings, 3-6-1 in their last 10 games...
...mainly around the tensions experienced between the various band members. Dick is bitter at Tallent for "going commercial," while Tallent sees himself more as baby-sitter than a friend for Dick's immature antics. Pipefitter tries to boost his own ego by picking on Oxenberger, who slowly relapses into schizophrenia after he loses his antipsychotic medication and the inter-group hostilities overwhelm him. Unfortunately, none of these problems ever seems compelling enough for the audience to invest sympathy in any one character, resulting in a film that is observed more than it is experienced...
...like all superheroes, Rosen, too, was make-believe. In 1983 he was forced to surrender his medical license. Rosen faced 67 violations of the Pennsylvania Medical Practices Act that ranged from curing schizophrenics who had never had schizophrenia to sequestering patients in dungeons and cells, extending his definition of "drastic" to a new level of inhumane...
...neuroses (relatively benign emotional disorders), Dolnick targets psychoanalysts who tried to cure psychoses (marked disorders of perception or reality) with talk therapy alone. From the 1940s to the 1970s an aggressive cabal of psychoanalysts fit such a bill; they scoffed at the biological origins of mental illness, eschewed treating schizophrenia with drugs and thought that their "talking" forms of therapy could single-handedly illuminate the darkest corners of the human psyche. Their intention was to unlock the mysteries of human consciousness. Their legacy, instead, was to open a Pandora's box of misdiagnoses...
Freud unequivocally stated that psychotherapy was ineffective at treating psychoses, or what he called "impenetrable darknesses" like schizophrenia. But his disciples set out to prove him wrong. From the onset, their intentions were not necessarily bad. One psychotherapist would sit in the urine of her schizophrenic patients to "prove she was no better than them." Another would bring autistic children to his home, convinced that their real parents were "killing them." Even John Rosen believed that his belligerent methods of "shock therapy" could jolt his patients into reality. But the progeny of these psychotherapists' "good intentions...