Word: masland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cummins, VW is doing business with some 1,800 Pennsylvania firms. If all goes as planned, VW will be assembling its U.S. Rabbits mostly from U.S.-made parts by next year, with only engines and transmissions coming from Wolfsburg, West Germany. In economically depressed Lewistown, Pa., for example, C.H. Masland, a U.S. company, is building a plant to supply carpeting for Rabbits; it will employ 200 people...
When an anorexic enters the hospital, before any psychiatric treatment begins, doctors work to bring her out of physical danger. Then, some sort of longer-term treatment begins, to combat the patient's will to starve and to induce voluntary eating. Dr. Robert Masland of Children's Hospital says, "Most people like food too much, so they cannot stay on a starvation diet; anorexics can. All the patients who come in want to weigh 100 pounds. We're dealing with patients with a stubborn streak and strong will-power. In behavior modification we say, "If you're not good...
...Masland explains, "You really can't trust these patients. You must know what they're eating, whether they're going to the bathroom to throw up or throw food away. After they've been doing it for so long they can deny it with a straight face. The manipulation and denial can be amazing...
...Children's Hospital, Masland and Piazza have found that their patients come from close-knit, economically comfortable homes and that they suffer from a "fear of growing up." Piazza says the families are usually "so close-knit that the child hasn't really been able to express herself, to feel autonomous. There is a desire to stay small, to be cared for by this close-knit family." Parents feel guilty because their child will not eat, and meals become battles. Therefore the therapy at Children's focuses on the entire family...
...Masland says the anorexic sees weight gain at puberty as "a distortion and wants to deny her femininity." He says anorexics need "a good relationship with a psychiatrist so they'll develop a strong sexual identity, know who they are and where they're going...