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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...muscles in a special way; or painting because the canvas serves as a medium for the mental patient to express feelings he can't put into words. On the other hand, a patient may be given contract work (at union rates) under the supervision of an occupational therapist. The real-work type of O.T. is practiced here as well as in the Soviet Union, contrary to TIME'S implication. HELEN S. WILLARD, O.T.R. President American Occupational Therapy Association Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...flurry of activity grimly reminiscent of pre-vaccine days. It flew eleven iron lungs to Des Moines, and other respiratory equipment to Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Dallas, Fort Worth, New Ocleans, Nashville, Tenn., and Chapel Hill, N.C. The foundation also flew six nurses and a physical therapist to Des Moines, three nurses to New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio's March | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Thomas Fisher's "Cross-Cultural Study of Psychotherapy" is an attempt to determine whether certain elements of mental therapy exist universally in sample cultures. Fisher finds that such therapy, as a means of dealing with undesirable deviants from a culture's norms, does involve common elements in the deviant-therapist relationship. Western psychoanalysis, the Navaho "Singer" treatment and related ritualistic healings in the cultures of the Saulteaux, Yurok, and Guatemalan Indians have certain points in common. Especially significant are the common traits of curing through an emotional experience, with the assumption that the cause of the disturbance lies beyond...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Adams House Journal of the Social Sciences | 5/22/1959 | See Source »

...taught dancing all her adult life. In the mid-'30s Washington psychiatrists began sending her children who were having difficulty in school or at home. In 1942, after she had had some success, Dr. Overholser invited her to work at St. Elizabeths as the first U.S. dance therapist. At that time, most psychiatrists felt that it was impossible to work in groups with acute schizophrenics. Says she: "I didn't think it would be useful. Then I found myself getting interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dance Therapy | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...interested in the mentally ill has Therapist Chace become that she has taken basic courses at the Washington School of Psychiatry, regularly attends clinical sessions at the hospital. She has trained most of the nation's dance therapists, is also a leader in the related field of drama therapy. Full of honors and awards, Marian Chace still feels a surge of triumph when a patient manages to dance his way-however briefly-out of his world of isolation. Says she: "They offer to carry the record player, or choose a record, or get together to plan a production. These...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dance Therapy | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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