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Fun-Da-Mental

He first came to public attention playing drums with Ian Astbury's (at the time going by the name Ian Lindsay) band Southern Death Cult (who, after Qureshi's departure, eventually evolved into The Cult).


1996 in LGBT rights

November 18 – Evelyn Hooker, whose research helped lead to declassifying homosexuality as a mental illness.

Albert Deutsch

In 1956, he received a grant from the National Association for Mental Health; later supplemented by funds from the National Institute of Mental Health to prepare a survey of mental health research in the United States.

Baedeker

In 1877 (according to the source cited here) Karl, afflicted with an incurable mental condition, moved to a sanatorium near Esslingen am Neckar where he remained for the rest of his life.

Battlemind

Battlemind is both the mental orientation developed during a combat zone deployment and a program developed at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) intended to reduce its impact on personal post-deployment issues.

Bernadette Roberts

The ego and self are both self-reflexive and dualistic modes of psychological functioning based on the subtle process of mental discriminating judgment, a process that is inherently built into the structure of the psyche.

Broughton Hospital

It is administered by North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services.

Butthan

Dhyāna focuses on mental and spiritual development through meditation and min zin.

Chelmsford Royal Commission

The Chelmsford Royal Commission (1988–1990), chaired by Justice John Patrick Slattery, was established by the New South Wales state government to investigate "Mental Health Services" in NSW.

Chronic fatigue

Chronic fatigue syndrome, an illness of unknown cause comprising post-exertional malaise, unrefreshing sleep, widespread muscle and joint pain, sore throat, cognitive difficulties, and chronic, often severe, mental and physical exhaustion, for a minimum of six months, not due to ongoing exertion, not substantially relieved by rest, and not due to any other medical condition

Clarence B. Farrar

Farrar's contributions to the field of psychiatry were recognized through honorary doctorates from McGill University and the University of Toronto, the Medal of Service of the Order of Canada from the Governor General of Canada, and the Distinguished Service Award of the Thomas W. Salmon Committee on Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene of the New York Academy of Medicine.

Dishonest assistance

The liability itself is well established, but the mental element of dishonesty is subject to considerable controversy which sprang from the House of Lords case Twinsectra Ltd v Yardley.

Ecopsychology

Richard Louv's Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder discusses in detail how the exposure of children to nature can assist in treating mental disorders, including attention deficit disorder.

Eric Cunningham Dax

In England during the 1930s and 1940s, Dax worked with John Rawlings Rees, Francis Reitmann and other biological psychiatrists who advocated the use of somatic (physical) treatments for patients with mental problems.

Euphoric

Euphoria, an emotional and mental state defined as a sense of great elation and well-being

George Hughes Kirby

Kirby served as a professor of psychiatry at several medical schools in New York: from 1914 to1919, he was Adjunct Professor of Mental Diseases at New York University and Bellevue Medical College; from 1917 to 1932, he was professor of psychiatry at Cornell University Medical College; and from 1927 to 1932 he was professor of psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.

Gordon Parker

Gordon Parker is Scientia Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales, specializing in clinical research in mental health in particular depression & bipolar disorder.

Gothika

Halle Berry plays a psychiatrist in a women's mental hospital who wakes up one day to find herself on the other side of the bars, accused of having murdered her husband.

Harmony No Harmony

Margot Kidder is an actress famed for her parts in the Superman movies, and also for a highly-publicised mental breakdown in 1996 (suiting the somewhat weary nature of the song's lyrics).

Helen J. Farabee

First Lady of the United States Rosalynn Carter appointed her to the Public Committee on Mental Health.

Iddhipada

Bodhipakkhiyādhammā - seven sets of 37 mental qualities conducive to Enlightenment

Johann Nepomuk Beck

In the late 1880s, Beck began to show signs of mental instability and was hospitalized in a mental institution in Inzersdorf.

Judge Grice

Grice had a mental breakdown and began destroying the interior of the Grand Hall of Justice with a flamethrower and shooting his own men.

June Jackson Christmas

Dr. Christmas was appointed Commissioner of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services on August 16, 1972 by Mayor of New York City John Lindsay.

Kids of the Majestic

Kids of the Majestic is a documentary by filmmaker Dylan Verrechia and Dr. Suhas Radhakrishna that follows a group of such orphans: Rafik, a smiling young drug addict; Mental Manja, nicknamed "mental" because he didn't speak until he was 10; Arun-Badur, the artist and the writer; Baba, who at 8 has travelled throughout India alone; and Joti, mother-to-be at 16, who was abused at 9.

Lila: An Inquiry into Morals

Phaedrus, the author's alter ego, is jarred out of his solitary routine by an encounter with Lila, a straightforward but troubled woman who is nearing a mental breakdown.

Macon, Missouri

In that year, Charles E. Still and Harry M. Still, sons of A. T. Still, the founder of the profession of osteopathic medicine, along with Dr. Arthur G. Hildreth, established the Still-Hildreth Sanatorium, which was devoted to the treatment and care of all types of nervous and mental disorders.

Mary Moore-Bentley

In 1943 she was committed to the Mental Hospital at Stockton in Newcastle, where she died in 1953.

Medical photography

Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne began photographing inmates in the Salpêtrière mental hospital in Paris in 1856.

Mental Images

The first versions of the rendering software were influenced, tested and used for production by Mental Images' then operating large commercial computer animation division, led by the visual effects supervisors John Andrew Berton (1986-1989), 2000 Academy Award winner John Nelson (1987-1989), and 1996 and 2000 Academy Award nominee Stefen Fangmeier (1988-1990).

Netherne Hospital

In 1961, following the so-called Water Tower Speech by Minisiter of Health Enoch Powell which called for mental hospitals to be closed in favour of community care and the use of general hospital acute units, Netherne formed a partnership with Redhill General Hospital in 1965, and the intake of patients was gradually reduced.

New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

The New Freedom Commission on Mental Health was established by U.S. President George W. Bush in April 2002 to conduct a comprehensive study of the U.S. mental health service delivery system and make recommendations based on its findings.

New Jersey Association for Infant Mental Health

Some of the original group were the late Thea Bry, Gerard Costa, Susan Adubato, Elaine Herzog, and Nancy Murphy, all of whom were involved with parent education and treatment of infant and family mental health problems www.njaimh.org.

Niuva 20

The name Niuva 20 is supposedly a reference to a mental asylum located in Niuvanniemi, Kuopio.

Operation Sacred Trust

Funding for the Supportive Services for Veterans Families program was provided by the 111th United States Congress through implementation of the provisions of section 604 of the Veterans’ Mental Health and Other Care Improvements Act of 2008, as published in the Federal Register.

Or Give Me Death

As the mother of a large family and wife of Patrick Henry succumbs to a genetic mental disorder, she is removed to a cellar prison in her own house, where she shows the power to predict future outcomes.

Pró-Vida

PRÓ-VIDA began in 1978, in the district of Moema, in São Paulo city, when Dr. Celso created Pró-Mente, where he himself gave courses about mental development and training.

Rebirthing

Attachment therapy, a controversial category of alternative child mental health interventions intended to treat attachment disorders

Search activity concept

Search Activity Concept (SAC) is a psychophysiological concept that integrates subject’s behavior, resistance to stress and deteriorating factors, pathogenetic mechanisms of different mental and psychosomatic disorders, REM sleep functions, brain monoamines activity and brain laterality.

Sibling relationship

Fifteen years later after he escapes a mental asylum, he pursues his other sister, Laurie Strode and makes several attempts to kill her.

The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai

Rather than killing her, the bullet lodges in her brain and gives her extraordinary mental powers, including the ability to understand languages of which she previously had no knowledge, arcane philosophical insight, advanced mathematical knowledge, and ESP.

Thomas Townsend Bucknill

Bucknill was born at Exminster in 1845, the second son of Sir John Charles Bucknill FRS, a famous mental health specialist who was knighted in 1894 in recognition of his services as one of the founders of the Volunteer Movement.

Timeline of disability rights outside the United States

1985 - The Canadian Human Rights Act was enacted, and it banned discrimination against people due to their physical or mental disability.

Trash Money

The band have often been mentioned by BBC comedians, The Mighty Boosh, both on radio shows and in interviews; their member Noel Fielding commented "The singer's great, the classic front man in an old fashioned sense, in that he makes you feel really weird and looks mental".

Twin Earth thought experiment

Tyler Burge subsequently argued in "Other Bodies" (1982) that the twins' mental states are different: Oscar has the concept H2O, while Twin Oscar has the concept XYZ.

Warkany syndrome

Warkany syndrome 1, an X-linked syndrome linked to reduced head size and mental retardation that is no longer diagnosed

William Hawthorn Lynch

At The Times, Lynch covered the 1959 saga of then Governor Earl Kemp Long, the relationship with stripper Blaze Starr, and Long's commitment to the state mental hospital in Mandeville in St. Tammany Parish.

Xiao Huang-Chi

2003 Executive Yuan CCA host "physical and mental disabilities of the Fifth National Wenhui Award" music and lyrics the creative team first

Yuri Leonidovich Nesterenko

Also he has contributed to many magazines, including Nauka i Zhizn, Khimiya i Zhizn – XXI Vek, Mir Fantastiki, Кругозор (Mental Outlook).

Zofiówka Sanatorium

Zofiówka Sanatorium is a defunct mental health facility in the town of Otwock in Poland, built at the beginning of the 20th century.


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