Word: schneck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem is growing, says Manhattan Pediatrician Herman Schneck in the Journal of Pediatrics. But if physicians train themselves to look for the phenomenon and make an early diagnosis, the addict's child can be weaned away in time. Reason: the baby's "addiction" is physiological, not psychic, can be cured by sedative drugs. To prevent emotional ties that could make the "addiction" psychic, the first move is to take the child from its mother. Best treatment is administering opiates or tranquilizers (Thorazine and reserpine seem most effective) in gradually diminishing amounts over a period of days or weeks...
Pediatrician Schneck is less sure of what happens long after recovery. No study has been made, for example, of whether infant addicts suffer organic brain damage in their first weeks. Most are placed for adoption, and Dr. Schneck questions whether they are a good risk: "Could the mother's emotional instability which led her to resort to narcotics, foreshadow the neuro-hereditary pattern of her offspring? Or is the infants' ultimate emotional development primarily one of environment?" The problem's social and genetic aspects, concludes Dr. Schneck, need a lot more study...
After sounding the usual professional notes of caution (a bungling hypnotist can do "irreparable harm," and no hypnotist should tackle a case on the borderline of severe mental illness), Dr. Schneck's contributors get down to cases...
...Editor Schneck and his colleagues recommend using hypnosis to get at a wide range of psychosomatic illnesses-from stomach upsets, headaches and skin disorders to menstrual troubles, morning sickness and difficulties with breast feeding. In surgery, they say, hypnosis can be not only a valuable anesthetic, but can serve to distinguish between true & false complaints of physical illness. (In the case of the shipwrecked sailor, it served a dual purpose...
...that they have learned about hypnosis and when to use it, Dr. Schneck and his collaborators still have very little idea of what the hypnotic state really is. When that is better understood, hypnosis will have a better chance of being more widely accepted...