TEN YEARS' SILENCE BROKEN BY NURSERY RHYME
Received Sunday, 10.30 p.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 8. A middlc-aered woman who has not spoken a word in 10 years s.uddenlv joiued in singing "Rockabye Baby" during her second day in the daneing class at the State mental hospital at Baltimore (Maryland). The doetors had dia^nosed her illness as catotonoc sthizaphrenia, Jong regarded as incurable in its chrome stages and in which victiius suffer disintegration of personality marked by ineoherence and long periods of stupor. A specialist in the rehabilitation of chronically ill women said the woman had been a "sitter" in a d^-ncing class where simple tnelodies and rliythms of nursery tunes were being used to kindle interest in mental patients. He said the woman was only one of many who have come out of their fregression" under stimuli usually associated with earily child hood.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19471110.2.25
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 10 November 1947, Page 4
Word Count
143TEN YEARS' SILENCE BROKEN BY NURSERY RHYME Chronicle (Levin), 10 November 1947, Page 4
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in