The party dispatched many adherents to labour camps and others to psychiatric wards to "cure" them of their sectarian obsessions.
Others experienced the trauma of being rejected by their families, psychiatric treatment to "cure" their sexuality and the distress of partners or friends being queer-bashed or committing suicide.
Although NIH hopes that the grants will soon yield insights about the brain that can help cure psychiatric and neurological disorders, the strength of these grants is that they are focused on basic neuroscience, said Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health.
Her memoir, Riding Fury Home, tells the story of the powerful, complicated bond between her mother and herself: from her childhood in the 50s with a suicidal mother, to discovering in adulthood that her mother had been a closeted lesbian given psychiatric treatment to "cure her," to their shared exhilaration when they both come out in the women's and gay liberation movements.
Put succinctly, to preempt, prevent and cure psychiatric disorders, it will be necessary to translate insights about molecular pathways for mental illness into druggable targets that directly reflect key neurodevelopmental processes that form trajectories of atypical as contrasted to typical development [ 7].
Strangely enough, the answers may come through our own desires for cures to psychiatric illnesses.
And that is an ailment that will prove hard to cure with psychiatric treatment.
There's a great expectation that once you come out of a psychiatric hospital you're cured.
Family therapy can be helpful in strengthening the family members' ability to cope with life by providing a common picture of the complexity of the family system but it is not enough to cure individual psychiatric problems.
John Sutherland Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Inspired by her grandfather's experiences in the first world war trenches, Barker's trilogy of novels — which also includes The Eye in the Door (1993) and The Ghost Road (1995) — centres around the Edinburgh psychiatric hospital where soldiers were "cured" of psychological trauma before being sent back to the front.
