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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Originally conceived as a two-year project to study the influence of volunteer workers upon mentally-disturbed patients, PBH hopes to obtain $200,000 more from the government to continue the unique study for five years...
...will try to determine whether college students are a valuable untapped resource in the 'treatment' of the mentally ill," project director David Kantor stated. The PBH inquiry will follow three main lines...
...project will first attempt to discover the effects of volunteer workers upon mental hospital patients. A professional psychologist has investigated individual patients; he will make a re-evaluation at the end of the year to discover the volunteers' effect upon patients. In this "case aid" part of the PBH program, a volunteer works directly with a single patient...
...Associate Director, Bender will "take an important part" in the studies and recommendations regarding grants of these additional funds. Many of these grants will support major new undertakings--including a juvenile delinquency project--for which adequate financing could not otherwise be obtained...
...another study of the research project, Ronald E. Shor, Public Health Service Research Fellow, tested the purely physiological reactions under hypnosis. In many previous similar experiments, it had been discovered that the physiological responses to pain were considerably reduced by hypnosis. The results in Shor's experiment were substantially different and quite unexpected...