Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrong track in its general approach to alcoholism and insanity. He suggests that doctors might get better results if, instead of allowing a patient to brood about his own madness, they focused his attention on some of the insane behavior of society. In Maine's case, his treatment produced a broad indignation that made him forget his own narrow craving for alcohol...
...common thieves." They specialized in beating and choking patients without leaving telltale bruises. One whom Maine met "had a theory that all violent insanity was connected with the lower colon," and treated it with enemas. And attendants (who call themselves "bughousers") are responsible for at least 90% of the "treatment" given to patients in most mental institutions, says Maine. The institutions are invariably short of doctors and nurses; patients rarely get any psychiatric care...
...attendant himself, first at a private institution and then at a huge VA mental hospital, Maine was so horrified at the treatment of patients that his own inner conflicts came to seem insignificant. He finally blamed the universal system of neglect less on attendants than on a public so indifferent that it would allow hospitals to be dark closets for storing the mental wreckage of modern civilization. When he quit his attendant's job to write a book, Maine was plenty mad-but not in a medical sense...
...Hall put these prenatal stepchildren into his tub and gave them the bell treatment. All had convulsions; two-thirds died. None behaved like noise-resistant black mice. This indicated, said Dr. Hall, that the tendency to die of audiogenic seizures is hereditary, carried by a gene in the germ plasm...
Excellent treatment has been afforded this course by many of the professors students who have given it in the past, but many students who have taken it in the past year feel strongly that a change is in order...