True or False: 1. Rosemary Kennedy was one of the first patients to be successfu
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True or False:
1. Rosemary Kennedy was one of the first patients to be successfully treated for her mental illness with a lobotomy, helping it gain popularity.
2. Walter Freeman used an ice pick from his home to perform the first trans-orbital lobotomy in his office.
3. Walter Freeman performed over 3000 lobotomies in his lifetime.
4. Thomas Szasz was an active Scientologist.
5. Tom Cruise represented himself as an atheist when he discussed psychiatry.
6. When penicillin emerged as a cure for syphilis in 1947, US Public Health Services administrators distributed it to their 1932 project subjects, though over half had already died of the disease.
7. Girl Interrupted is about one young woman’s struggle with schizophrenia and the medications that helped her.
8. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest the nurses are represented as sympathetic figures who fight to abolish the use of shock treatments and lobotomies.
9. The first types of shock treatments used to treat the mentally ill involved mild electrocution.
10. Iproniazid was originally being used to treat tuberculosis when doctors noticed that it had energizing, anti-depressant effects.
11. In the 1880’s, cocaine was promoted as both an anti-depressant and a treatment for morphine addiction.
12. In the 1920s, Thorazine was designed specifically to treat mood disorders.
13. Peter Kramer argued that psychiatric medications rarely seemed to impact patients’ fundamental personalities or their relationships with others.
14. Harry Harlow framed his studies on notions of love and described his experiments with terms such as “rape rack” and “pit of despair”.
15. Randolf Nesse argued that psychiatric medication might inhibit evolution itself as society could lose adaptive functions such as the vigilance of those with anxiety disorders or the relative lack of ambition in those with mild depression.
16. Though Koko the gorilla made signs with her hands, she rarely put the words in context or conversations, signing mainly nouns for food.
Explanation / Answer
1. False
2. True
3.. False,he is said to have performed around 3500 lobotomies
4. False
5. False, Nothing in his interview show him as an athiest
6. True
7. True
8. False, there is one harsh and bad nurse-Ratched and one good sympathetic nurse- Murphy
9. False
10. True
11. True
12. true
13. True
14. True
15. True
16.True
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