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American Singers, Whitney Balliett...
...propagated the notion that mind science was on the brink of blowing away all mental ills. "Psychiatry was overtouted," says Psychiatrist and Author Robert Coles. "Then there was the disenchantment, not only of patients, but also, of course, professionals " Adds Robert Michels, head of Cornell Medical Center's Payne Whitney Hospital and Clinic: "The public's enthusiasm for psychiatry 20 years ago was based on an insane interpretation of psychiatry...
...psychiatric treatment was conducted in hospitals. Today, 75% takes place in an outpatient setting. That's progress." Still psychiatric patients fill 40% of all hospital beds in the nation, and the number of mental patients in nursing homes, prisons and single-room occupancy residences is up. Says Payne Whitney's John Talbott: "We've merely shifted the mentally ill population, not decreased...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙Albert Camus, Herbert R. Lottman American Singers, Whitney Balliett In Memory Yet Green, Isaac Asimov The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald ∙Thoughts in a Dry Season, Gerald Brenan ∙To Build a Castle-My Life as a Dissenter, Vladimir Bukovsky...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ Albert Camus, Herbert R. Lottman American Caesar, William Manchester ∙ American Singers, Whitney Balliett ∙ In Memory Yet Green, Isaac Asimov ∙ Letters of Flannery O'Connor: The Habit of Being, edited by Sally Fitzgerald Thoughts in a Dry Season, Gerald Brenan