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Matthew K. Nock, an assistant professor of psychology who is teaching a seminar on self-destructive behavior in the spring, said there is precedent for efforts like those of Students in Touch to improve mental health...
According to Nock, Jerome Motto, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, found surprising results in a 1976 study of patients who attempted suicide. The control group received no follow up after they were discharged, while the experimental group was sent postcards every six months that simply expressed interest in the person’s welfare. Those that received the follow-up cards were far less likely to commit suicide...
...This is among the only studies to show a reduction in suicide rates,” Nock said...
...like to call him Bello Nock--his clown name and his family name. Although he doesn't act like it, Bello, who keeps his real first name secret, is aristocracy. Members of the Nock family (their performance roots date back to the 18th century in Switzerland) have been circus artists and great clowns for generations. I saw Bello's uncle Pio Nock in the Ringling show when I was 22, and I applied immediately to the Ringling Bros. Clown College. Bello's thoroughly American accent--he speaks many languages, but all of them like a guy from Florida, which...
...Bello Nock a "clown's clown"? That's a hard one, because--this little essay notwithstanding--clowns tend not really to talk about one another too much. But if you get past the unanswerable questions like, Who's the best? or Who's the funniest? or Whose gig would you most like to have? and you just ask, Whom do you like to go see? then it gets easier. There are only a few clowns I love to see again and again, and Bello Nock is one of them. He's really, really good, and he has a really good...