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BORN: July 25, 1934, Aurora EDUCATION: Wheaton College, B.S., 1956; U of Illinois, M.D., 1960 FAMILY: Wife, Fran; two children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY SERVICE: None OCCUPATION: Physician; Public Health Service officer POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 387B Schmale Road, Carol Stream...
...Enjoy Helping." Nina Jo Schmale, 21, queen of the nurses' spring dance, was engaged to a high school sweetheart, proudly kept in her room a sign post for "Schmale Rd.," named for her Wheaton, Ill., family. A trim champion swimmer, member of her high school water-ballet team, and engaged to a male nursing student in Chicago, native Chicagoan Patricia Ann Matusek, 21, learned on the day of the murders that she had been accepted as a staff member at the city's Children's Memorial Hospital. In her application she had written: "Ever since...
...front bedroom, stabbed five times, including one thrust in the left eye and one in the heart. Next to her were Pat Matusek, strangled with wrists bound; and Pam Wilkening, also bound by the wrists, who had been stabbed in the heart. In the adjoining front bedroom sprawled Nina Schmale, bound at the wrists, gagged, knifed four times in the neck and strangled; Merlita Gargullo, wrists and ankles bound, dead of a 6-in.-deep thrust in the side of her neck, which pierced the trachea; and Valentina Pasion, wrists bound, knifed four times, strangled. In all, the killer inflicted...
...results, reported by Dr. Arthur H. Schmale Jr. in Psychosomatic Medicine, were startling. Every patient except one had suffered some such blow, and careful interviews with relatives confirmed it. In 35 cases the blow rubbed a childhood wound, such as death or divorce, which still remained unhealed. For all 41 patients affected, the upsetting experience brought feelings of "depression" that ranged from anxiety to real hopelessness. When illness struck, every conflict was still unresolved. The illness followed the blow within a week for 31 patients, a month for eight, and six to twelve months for two. Examples...
Such revelations about an "average" hospital population still do not prove that disease is a direct consequence of depression, notes Dr. Schmale. Disease and depression may be quite separate attempts by the bodymind to adapt to loss and despair. To really nail down a link between object loss and biological vulnerability, it is also necessary to see how some people survive personality blows without getting sick. But theoretically, health depends largely on keeping the ego intact. If it does, then a blueprint analysis of a patient's personality may become as useful in preventive medicine...