Show TREATING THOSE MENTALLY ILL Yale university announces the appointment of ot a professor of ps psychiatric psychiatric nursing The creation of this department In Yale Vale heralds the first such professorship In any airy university anywhere Yale comments that with In in I creasing understanding o of the and treatment of ot mental I disorders there has come a de demand mand for nurses qualified by ape ape- special cial preparation for tor this exceed exceed- exceedIngly exceed Important and Interesting wort work That phrase Increasing under under- understanding under standing of o mental disorders of ot offers otter fers ter food for thought A generation ago aco the th mentally sick man or woman oman was as a 1 shun shun- shunned shunned ned person a family disgrace Such a disgrace that old pioneers tell of o man many a home wIth a hid hid- hidden hidden den secret room in the attic or shed a room with heavy bolted door and barred windows window where the tho households household's mentally sick per person son was WitS kept In secrecy for long years until death released him It U he were only dead instead was the cry o of the parent of the mentally disordered child More than a remnant ot of o this old complex remains remain even today lIes Hes crazy as a loon or hes a crazy nut spoken In rollicking contempt symbolizes symbolize society's society at- at attitude attitude at attitude even today towards toward the mentally ill person But the popularizing ot of of mental disorders through alienists or psychiatrists called Into courts court on most any case cas today Is 1 doing much to shed new light on ne ness to make people regard retard the crazy nut nu a as a sIck ick person and to make families of ot such persons languish langush In less leu Ies shame and despair than before for The psychiatric nurse available 8 for call just as 8 a any nurse nune is available for tor physical distress dl tress will will do much more towards abolishing this complex nn |