A Present-day Conception of Mental Disorders |
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Adaptation to reality adult ailments animals animistic and magical attitude blood-pressure cation central nervous system child childhood chronic CONCEPTION OF MENTAL crust of bread cultivated directed thought diseases dislikes dream earlier modes early emancipated emotional tension encies environment experience face factors fears or tricks feelings forces function of thought HARVARD HEALTH TALKS HARVARD UNIVERSITY havior headache heart human nature important rôle indigestion individual inequalities of temper INFECTION inner principle instinctive invalids mechanism mediæval ment mental disorders merely modern modes of thought musical note night-terrors nutrition organs palpitation Paralysis patients pattern of reaction periences phenomena physical PNEUMONIA PRESENT-DAY CONCEPTION PRESS HARVARD HEALTH primitive tendencies rôle played satisfaction scandal SIMEON BURT WOLBACH situation so-called nervous social stimuli stimulus study the disordered suffering symptoms term disorder thought and behavior thwarted tients tion tive TONSILS topic trace treatment tricks of thought UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY PRESS HARVARD word mental
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Page 14 - Is it possible," pointedly asked the professor of psychiatry5 of Harvard Medical School, "that our intense devotion to a philanthropic cause may in some instances be a disorder, rather than an indication of a healthy moral superiority? Is it possible that suspicion of employers and accusations of social injustice may be a disorder, and not the expression of an enlightened and impersonal grasp of economic and social relations? Can raucous patriotism and so-called pacifism be scrutinized in the same...
Page 2 - OF CHILDREN BY JOHN LOVETT MORSE PRESERVATIVES AND OTHER CHEMICALS IN FOODS: THEIR USE AND ABUSE BY OTTO FOLIN THE CARE OF THE SKIN BY CHARLES JAMES WHITE THE CARE OF THE SICK ROOM BY ELBRIDGE GERRY CUTLER THE CARE OF THE TEETH BY CHARLES ALBERT BRACKETT...
Page 16 - In referring to a reaction as a mental disorder we do not necessarily mean that the condition is severe or serious. Mental disorders may be mild, just as physical disorders may be; mental indigestion may be of as many degrees as physical indigestion.
Page 15 - Is antivivisectionism not altogether to be explained by a surplus of the milk of human kindness in those who level virulent and illfounded accusations at men, working earnestly in the interests even of those who revile them? Is intense intellectual activity, in apparent devotion to the pursuit of abstract truth, sometimes the expression of a disorder, rather than the wholesome activity of a well-balanced personality? Can the blameless and model individual, following smugly in the parental footsteps,...
Page 25 - We have now reviewed the sort of material which is before us when we try to frame a general conception of mental disorders. It is a motley group. It includes respectable bankers peevish with their wives; scrupulous housewives with immaculate and uncomfortable homes; children with night-terrors and all sorts of wayward reactions; earnest reformers, intellectuals...
Page 25 - The sort of material which is before us when we try to frame a general conception of mental disorders ... is a motley group. It includes respectable bankers peevish with their wives ; scrupulous housewives with immaculate and uncomfortable homes; children with night-terrors and all sorts of wayward reactions; earnest reformers, intellectuals, aesthetes; delicate and refined invalids, evasive and tyrannical, with manifold symptoms and transitory dramatic episodes; patients delirious with fever, or...
Page 7 - ... and graded schools of Iowa. He describes the work at Washington. Iowa, begun by the Men and religion forward movement. 744. Morse, John Lovett. The care and feeding of children. Cambridge, Harvard university press, 1914. 53 p. 12°. (Harvard health talks) This series of talks presents thedubstance of some of the public lectures delivered at the Medical school of Harvard university.
Page 52 - First: to all who personally, or vicariously in relatives, have suffered from these disorders, it is a great relief to look upon them simply and directly as human ailments, to be studied like other ailments, to be treated in the same considerate manner as other ailments, to be talked of in the same unembarrassed way in which we talk of other ailments. Second: a modern attitude to these ailments means that at the earliest indication of trouble, when treatment has most chance of being useful, these...
Page 7 - DAVID LINN EDSALL, AM, MD, SD, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, and Dean of the Medical School.