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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iron Bars Alone. Says Dr. Hunt: "Our 'humane' practice may be almost as brutalizing and degrading as those of past centuries. It is a rare patient now who suffers cruelties to the flesh, but restraints on the human spirit cannot be measured in terms of iron bars and canvas straps alone. They derive much more importantly from the attitudes of people around the patient. For too long, as Maxwell Jones puts it, we worked on the unconscious belief that 'the role of the patient is to be sick.' If he senses that we expect...
Noise in the Sky. At St. Lawrence, soon after one of the wards was unlocked, one patient returned leading another, who was limping. The explanation: "We heard a noise in the sky. We had heard of airplanes, but could never see one from the closed ward. We got so excited looking at this one that we didn't look where we were going, and Amy fell down." A man kept going to the parking lots, sitting in unlocked cars. Eventually, he broke a silence of years to explain: he could not imagine how a car would work without...
Indeed, the parent's worst mistake may have been his softness. Every person craves some punishment; if he cannot get it at home, he goes to extremes to seek it. As Bergler told one homosexual patient, who was rarely spanked as a child: "You had to work hard to get your beatings at home. The generations brought up in the era of 'progressive education' faced the same problem...
Misery Concentrated. The seed of self-punishment flowers in the conspiratorial world of the homosexual. Its life, as one Bergler patient related, is "misery concentrated, guilt heightened, depression the order of the day." Male homosexuals are pathologically jealous and "unfaithful." Some have relations with more than 100 males a year. Few relationships last more than several weeks; the most common type is the "one-night stand" or the five-minute meeting in a public park or even a comfort station. With contacts so casual, venereal disease runs wild. (One survey showed that almost 10% of male homosexuals are carriers...
...Indian Express was unkind enough to point out last week, just ten years ago Prime Minister Nehru was patiently explaining his neutralism to the U.S. Congress and winding up with these ringing words: "Where freedom is menaced, or justice threatened, or aggression takes place, we cannot and shall not be neutral." Last week, with freedom menaced, justice threatened and aggression taking place just across the Himalayas from him, Prime Minister Nehru advised everyone to be patient...