Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conservative estimate, one in every 100 people in the world is schizophrenic. But the psychiatric profession is itself schizophrenic in its approach to treatment-divided between-schools that seek the cause and cure of the disease either in the emotions or in physical-chemical conditions. When 2,000 of the world's leading psychiatrists assembled in Zurich last week for the Second International Congress for Psychiatry, TIME'S Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant was there, to listen to their latest findings on the urgent problem of mental illness. For his report, see MEDICINE, Meeting on the Mind...
...every hundred people in the world is afflicted with schizophrenia. Medicine's war against schizophrenia, Bleuler argued, is as urgent as the drives against infectious diseases or cancer, but until now it has woefully lacked public support, largely because psychiatrists themselves differ so strongly about its causes and treatment...
...heavy stress on heredity, but Bleuler insisted that nobody knows whether the disease is hereditary through specific genes or whether it is passed on from generation to generation because children are emotionally damaged by schizophrenic parents who subject their offspring to a sick environment. As for opinions about treatment, said Bleuler, some psychiatrists see schizophrenia as primarily emotional in origin and give top marks to psychotherapy; others seek the cause of the disease in the chemical or metabolic abnormalities that are known to mark schizophrenia, hence downgrade psychotherapy to a mere adjunct of physical treatments (drugs, shock, coma...
...than the number (12.3) expected from chance alone. Likelihood that the cases occurred by chance in a four-year span, say the statisticians. is less than one in a thousand. If existence of a link between the two presumably incurable conditions is proved, important clues to their causes and treatment may be found...
...Capp at last getting his comeuppance? What did he think of the Saunders-Ernst treatment? Said he: "Unpardonable slander. Something disgraceful, humiliating." Then Capp took his tongue out of his cheek and exposed the feud (sob!) as a hoax. He and Saunders cooked it up last fall in Washington at a meeting of the cartooning clan ("a pretty damn dull profession"). Rapp will go on taking raps for a few weeks until, says Capp, Saunders "casually reveals at the end that I'm not a monster." Confirmed Cartoonist Saunders: "Rapp just follows the public concept of Capp, an egotistical...