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Psychiatrist Abraham Arden Brill rallied to the teachers' defense with a statement that manic-depressives and other neurotics often made brilliant teachers. In the midst of the furor police picked up a high school substitute instructor in Brooklyn, charged her with attempting to strip in a subway station...
Millions of Germans scanned anxiously the States list of grounds for sterilization: 1) hereditary deafness; 2) hereditary alcoholism; 3) hereditary blindness; 4) St. Vitus' dance; 5) epilepsy 6) manic-depressive insanity; 7) congenital idiocy; 8) schizophrenia (split personality) and 9) severe physical deformity...
This Brill. Dr. Abraham Arden Brill's characterization of Abraham Lincoln as a schizoid-manic personality (TIME, June 15) must be painful to teachers who hold Lincoln as a model for their pupils. "But who is this Dr. Brill?* Teachers have never before heard of him. What do other psychiatrists say? . . . Teachers, before accepting his conclusions, would want to see an analysis of the doctor's own mentality." (James William Crabtree, secretary of the Association...
...Humorist." Lincoln, from what Dr. Brill has been able to learn out of Lincoln biographies, was a schizoidmanic. That appellation is not so horrendous as it seems in type. A schizoid is a "split personality." He has subtle conflicts among the psychic components of his personality. A manic is a moody person, one subject to fits of exaltation and depression. When a manic or a schizoid or any type of mental aberration annoys his neighbors, they call him crazy and have him locked up. Yet there is no perfectly sane person on earth. Sanity is merely the general average...
...EXERCISES IN ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY. Last Demonstration. Topic: "Dementia Praecox and Manic Depressive Insanity--Criminal Types and Psychopaths." Dr. Edwin Katzenellenbogen. Danvers State Hospital, Hathorne, 4-6 P. M. Train leaves North Station, Boston...