Word: villejuif
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis le Guillant, director of the Center for Treatment and Social Readaptation at Villejuif, near Paris, reported in Presse Medicale that fully a third of the operators have feelings of "profound lassitude" or "veritable annihilation" at the end of a day. Some are so shaken that they take subways in the wrong direction or wander aimlessly in front of speeding autos. Many walk home, to settle their seething tempers before facing families. Few can concentrate on any intellectual activity. Reading is difficult. More than half cannot sleep restfully, and 38% suffer from full-scale insomnia. Other effects: depression and thoughts...
...French police arrested René once again. Locked up in prison, he feigned insanity and was ordered transferred at once to a psychiatric hospital at Villejuif. He walked out of the hospital with no trouble...