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Psychiatrist Verdel does not like the term "hopeless." But all 106 men in his pilot group, he said last week, had failed to respond to other methods of treatment. They had been at the hospital for varying periods up to five years;* 95% had schizophrenia, one of the most difficult mental diseases to treat...
...Verdel and Staff Psychiatrist William L. Harris worked out a full timetable of intensive treatment that left no time for the patients to retreat into their own sick fancies. The system worked. Out of the 106 patients, 16 were able to go home, and two of the 16 had full-time jobs; 4 more were about ready for trial leaves; 45 others were "good prospects" for release...
Like many another copybook maxim, the old saw about an idle mind being the devil's workshop has validity in psychiatry as well as in everyday life. A little over a year ago, Psychiatrist Louis F. Verdel, manager of the Veterans Administration Hospital at Northport, N.Y., began an experiment that leaned heavily on the maxim. Dr. Verdel decided to keep a test group of mental patients so busy that they would have no time to mope, brood or withdraw from reality...
...busy timetable system is known officially at Northport as the "Reintegrative Research Program." Dr. Verdel's shorter, better name for it is the "total push...
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