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EIGHT MEDFOHD (OREGON) Simple Work Cure Applied in Treating Cases of Schizophrenia BY A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington As the perfec tion of machinery takes Ameri ca rapidly into the age of auto mation, s o me pre Iimmary cone lusions for a govern ment experi ment in hu man n a t u re have sounded a warning about how to bring up your kids. This experi A. Robt. Smith ment, conducted at the National Institute of Health here, reveals that possibly a corollary should be added to the old adage, "He wasn't loved enough as a child." The corollary might be, "You don't love your child wisely if you don't give him enough work and responsibility." In an era when machines are taking over more and more of man's work and when juvenile delinquency is roaring upward, this experiment conducted by Dr. Jordan M. Scher may take on unusual significance. Dr. Scher has applied a simple "work cure" in treating 11 men tal patients, all schizophrenics, over the past 18 months. Regard ed as novel, his treatment in cludes none of the customary psychiatric "methods phycho analysis. drugs, seculsion and re traint. His method is to try to re store the patient's self-confidence and self-respect by making them work like normal persons. 'Chronically Underloaded' This approach has been follow ed because Dr. Scher has con cluded that the chief difficulty of his patients was neither re jection nor overindulgence by. their parents in the usual sense, but that they had been "chronic ally underloaded" with work and responsibility. Parents had per formed too many of the duties which should have been entrust ed to the child. They didn't learn to stand on their own feet when confronted by a fociety that de mands that they perform as "functional beings." ' Dr. Scher sayi he first train ed his patients to care for them selves and strongly encouraged personal grooming. Next they cleaned their rooms and later were given outside chores such Psychiatrist's Study Solves Burglary San Pedro. Calif. (U.R) A psychiatrist has solved a bur glary case by discovering that one of his patients suffered from guilty conscience, police said today. Dr. Kurt Fantl recently told officers that the patient ad mitted under treatment that he was worried because he had . burglarized the home of Harlan Huff last Nov. 30 of $796. The doctor recommended that the worried patient pay back the money and offered to act as intermediary. Fantl sent Huff a cashier's check for the amount and the patient immediately felt "Uike a million dollars." Fantl told police he couldn't disclose the patient's name be cause of ethical grounds. How ever, officers consulted Huff and he said he didn't want to prose cute because he got his money back. The doctor put his patient's case history in the "cured file" and police termed the burglary solved. Toastmasters Club Is Sponsoring Lessons The Medford Toastmasters club is sponsoring a series of Speechcraft lessons at 6:30 p.m. every Monday in the Jackson hotel. Seven more lessons are in cluded in the series, which is open free of charge to anyone interested. Ken Blair, president of the club, said purposes of the sessions are to give funda mental lessons in speaking and ' to give each individual an op portunity to speak. LIME! Right after first hay cut ting, when ground is firm, is the ideal time to apply lime. Prompt service can be given. Be ready! Get your soil test now! See your county agent or ASC mgr. for soil carton and instructions. Order for pasture befort irrigating. AGRICULTURAL LIME DISTR. CO. Ph. UL 5-1245 or UL 5-1297 MAIL TRIBUNE as clothes mending and furniture' repair. There patients are now working in an outside shop part time under supervision. All of these patients had been in private hospitals and institu tions: all were depressed and withdrawn; some were violent. One young man had suffered a teen-age breakdown and had reached the stage of setting his clothing afire. Now he is meticul ous in his grooming. A young mother, who became ill while her officer husband was in Korea, was violent and suicidal. Now she goes home week ends and is beginning to assume respon sibility for her children again. Dr. Scher attributes the pro gress of his patients to the fact that "they were introduced, per haps for the first time, into an organized world which respected them enough to expect some thing of them." He added that they were able to assess their own worth "since a value had been placed upon them as func tional beings in a real world." Ray of Hop Observers here believe this Drive with care . . Friday. May 10. 1957 experiment would have to run two to three more years before conclusive findings could be reached. But its preliminary re sults offer a ray of hope to 350, 000 schizophrenics now hospital ized in the country. Perhaps more significant is the impl:cation of Dr. Scher's ap parently correct evaluation of the need for work and respon sibility which every person has. Many of the growing statistics in juvenile delinquency reports are an outgrowth of mentally or em otionally disturbed youngsters, many coming from privileged homes as well as underprivileged families. Congress, troubled by these mounting statistics on juvenille crime, is working on legislation to strengthen state and local delinquency control and treat ment programs. Maybe what is also needed is for parents who wish to really love their children to be sure that automation, pro sperity and their own indulgence don't rob their kids of a critical ly needed experience, learning how to work. . everywhere! Chevrolets Chevrolet's new Turboglide is tiie first and only triple-turbine automatic trans mission in any car. 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