Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Michnik had his doubts. In his newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, the longtime Solidarity adviser said he feared that his estranged former comrade, like the sorcerer's apprentice, had conjured up baleful forces that would have a life of their own. The campaign, Michnik wrote, had unveiled a "society filled with mental chaos, xenophobia and aggressive populism, and a longing for the strength of an iron hand...
Count on Awakenings, written by Steve Zaillian, to mop up at Oscar- $ nominations time. Any movie about mental disturbance (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rain Man) is likely to touch Academy members, not so much because it treats a serious issue as because it parades the performer's craft. To watch De Niro shrink into the shadow of catatonia is to be made aware of his great gifts of body control, of withdrawing into character, of seeming to be. It's an awesome show that reveals more about De Niro than about the man he is playing. Like...
...flesh is home: African nomads without houses decorate their faces and bodies instead. The skull is home. We fly in and out of it on mental errands. The highly developed spirit becomes a citizen of its own mobility, for home has been internalized and travels with the homeowner. Home, thus transformed, is freedom. Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under...
...push to give prescription privileges to psychologists has intensified tensions between the two groups of mental health professionals. Psychologists insist that the initiative is the only way to get valuable medications to all those who could benefit from them. Psychiatrists and many other doctors contend that granting such powers to people without adequate training is irresponsible and possibly dangerous. Says Dr. Carolyn Robinowitz, deputy medical director of the American Psychiatric Association: "We're talking about patients and their lives. I just hope people don't suffer serious complications for the sake of proving a point...
Psychologists maintain that they are eager to prescribe because medication is an increasingly powerful tool for relieving mental illness. But some critics see an ulterior motive. They contend that what the two professions are really concerned about is profits. In fact, psychiatrists have reason to worry. From 1982 to 1987, according to one poll, the proportion of counseling visits handled by psychiatrists fell from 36% to 22%, while those by psychologists rose from 29% to 34%. This summer Washington loosened psychiatrists' grip on treatment of the elderly by permitting psychologists to receive reimbursements from Medicare. In addition, the California supreme...