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Behind this modest claim lies what some observers have heralded, perhaps overoptimistically, as a third revolution in mental health. The first was the medical discovery, less than two centuries ago, that the insane were neither criminals nor possessed by demons but sick people whom chains could never heal. The second was Freud's insights into the emotional topography of the mind. The third is crisis intervention: a radical and still experimental attempt to try emotional first aid on someone who seems headed straight for a mental institution. Says Dr. Edward Stainbrook, chairman of the department of psychiatry...
...this "third revolution" may lie a redefinition of insanity. Crisis intervention already implies this by assigning priority to the patient's crisis, which, at that moment, is more important than understanding what produced it. "Any time a person is desperate, something is wrong around him," says Dr. Frank S. Pittman III, director of psychiatric services at Grady Hospital. "The person says 'I am in an impossible situation' and 'I need help' in several ways-by saying it when no one is really listening, by attempting suicide, by beating up someone or by going...
Disbanding the Clinics. By the final show, taped last June, most of the studio panel said that they had kicked the habit. Since then, one-third of the original group has admitted to backsliding...
Even so, the pace of profit growth is slowing. In the third quarter of 1968, earnings had jumped by 14%. For the past two quarters, the gain has been just over 7%. The more recent results suggest that taxes and costs are overtaking businessmen's efforts to keep up profit margins-now roughly a nickel on every dollar of sales-by raising prices or increasing efficiency...
...world market clotted, leaders of the Common Market's agriculture section are trying to persuade consumers to switch from margarine to butter. The proposed solution, which includes a tax of at least $60 a ton on the food oils used in margarine, would slash by one-third the U.S.'s $500 million annual soybean exports to the Common Market. The tax plan was shelved after the U.S. threatened retaliation-by raising tariffs on imported European cars, for example-but as long as the "butterberg" grows, the bitterness will persist...