Word: zigmond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full disclosure of his records, some say he might well fit a fairly common depression syndrome: the ambitious, energetic and successful person who at moments of achievement envisions even higher goals that seem depressingly out of reach. It is, oddly, an illness of the ablest. Says Washington Psychiatrist Zigmond Lebensohn of Eagleton: "The very fact that he reached out for help is healthy." While recurrence of depression cannot be ruled out, the fact that Eagleton has gone six years without treatment and has performed effectively in office makes it less likely. Lebensohn says he treated high political figures as long...