Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your recent news treatment of Mr. Eisenhower is said by some wags to be roughly equivalent to the College of Cardinals criticizing the Pope. If being 67 years old is what is slowing down the President, then I heartily wish TIME were twice its present...
...very heartening to read [March 3] that Tennessee Williams is taking psychoanalytic treatment, but judging from the first excited oversimplifications, such as "Evil is merely a sickness-a psychic distortion," there are many tinny rationalizations prancing around on the roof of Mr. Williams' intellect which need to be separated from the psychic cats before the doctor's fat fee can be tabulated...
...injections of Government spending (dope) by Uncle Sam (the doctor) result in strengthening public confidence and in adding push to the private economy (the patient), then the treatment will be proper. Of course, the patient ought to get well enough to go off dope and pay the doctor's bill...
...Lafargue Clinic and in private practice, "far more often than not this diagnosis is wrong." Without trying to pin on diagnostic labels of her own, Dr. Mosse cites children who showed behavior problems or suffered from common juvenile fantasies, only to be pushed into mental hospitals and given shock treatment, which made them worse...
...five or six feet, the commissioners do not have time to read all or even most of it. Lawyers often take advantage of the commissioners' presence to draw out the hearings even further by making grandstand plays. Says one lawyer: "We have to impress them with the shock treatment. Our thoughtful arguments are not going to get detailed consideration anyway...