NOVEL CURE FOR ODD MALADY
NEW YORK, Nov. 7
A middle-aged woman wlio lias not spoken a word in 10 years suddenly joined in singing “Rock-a-bye Baby” during her second day in the dancing class at the State Mental Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland. Doctors had diagnosed her illness as catotonoc sChizaphrenia, long regarded as incurable in its chronic stages, and in which victims suffer disintegration of personality marked by incoherence and long periods of stupor. A specialist in the rehabilitation of chronically ill women said the woman had been a “sitter” in the dancing class where simple melodies and rhythms of nursery tunes were being used to kindle interest in mental patients. He said the woman was only one of many who had come out of their “regression” under stimuli usually assoieated with early childhood.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22481, 10 November 1947, Page 5
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