If the talk-it-out method of treating mental illness is hard to apply on a big scale, the take-a-pill method, in conjunction with psychotherapy, is doing fine. At meetings of the American Psychiatric Association in Chicago, held separately from the psychoanalysts', 2,000 psychiatrists last week heard that since New York began intensive drug treatment with ataractics in 1956. the number of patients in its state mental hospitals has dropped by more than 4,000 (despite a 500,000 population spurt). Admissions, including readmissions, are up 5,000 a year, but discharges are up by 8,000. Dr. Henry Brill predicted that New York's mental-hospital population would...
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