Word: electroshock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jobs at State, says Stamps, they were regarded as mere musclemen. "The hospital wanted strong black bodies, seasoned by hard manual labor, to handle patients who hadn't been taken out of seclusion for years." Now, with no official upgrading, Stamps and the other strong men assist in electroshock treatments, guard narcotics supplies, give injections and other medications, take an active part in group-therapy sessions-and, by the doctors' insistence, must always be available to the patients. "Society is going to have to recognize that it's at least as important to help a man back...
...feel usurped by the day leader and the day leader doesn't feel put down or put himself down to the supervisor. If not, the group will split and form loyalties. This is where professionalism comes in--here, and in answering questions like "What is the effect of electroshock?" or "What does this drug do?" or "I want to get my patient out; who should I contact...
Most of the details of Papa's eventual hospitalization at the Mayo Clinic, where he received electroshock treatment, have been told before. But Hotchner gives them a special poignancy. There is, for example, an account of Hotchner's last visit, in June 1961, when Hemingway, suffering from delusions and high blood pressure, complained bitterly: "What does a man care about? Staying healthy. Working good. Eating and drinking with his friends. Enjoying himself in bed. I haven't any of them. Do you understand, goddamn it? None of them!" And so, less than a month later, Papa Hemingway...
...bluff his way into a mental hospital where Psychotic Killer Roddy McDowall may or may not reveal the location of $1,000,000 in stolen cash. But malevolent Psychiatrist Lauren Bacall also craves money, to continue her research. When she hits on Whitman's game, she prescribes electroshock therapy, then injects a concoction into his jugular vein to induce catatonia...
...plagued by cirrhosis of the liver, high blood pressure and severe mental depression. In November 1960, he went to the Mayo Clinic, where he received 15 electroshock treatments; in April he went back for ten more. "Temporarily he seemed more alert, less withdrawn, less depressed." But when he was released at the end of June, his weight was down from his normal 200 to a gaunt...