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.
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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."
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Observers here believe this
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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.
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