EC Comic Book: Psychoanalysis
This company published the original Psychoanalysis comic series in 1955.
What is EC Comics
Author of “The Myth of Mental Illness?
Thomas Szasz
Despite the relief of the war being over, the concerning mental health rates of Americans at the time was largely due to fear of what?
What is Atomic Weaponry
The Government Agency that Conducted "Operation Star Gate"
What is the CIA? (While technically the project was started by the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the CIA took over the research early on)
How many volumes of this comic book was made
What is 4 volumes
The man who coined the term “Anti-Psychiatry”?
David Cooper
These two programs were tasked to increase the number of mental health professionals in the post war period?
What are the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the VA
The Duration of the Cold War
What is 1950s to 1990s, 40 years?
This major event increased public awareness of mental health issues, influencing the creation of the Psychoanalysis comics.
What is World War II
The popular group adopted Anti-Psychiatry as one of their beliefs
The Church of Scientology
This controversial model for clinical psychologists emphasized the importance of being a scientist first and a practitioner second?
What is the Scientist-Practitioner Model
The Goal of Operation Star Gate
What is Remote Viewing?
The rise of this strict regulatory code contributed to the short lifespan of the Psychoanalysis comic series.
What is the Comics Code Authority?
4 of the 8 people listed as contributors to Anti-Psychiatry that I’ve mentioned
Jaqus Lacan, Thomas Szasz, Giorgio Antonucci, Ronald Laing, Franco Basaglia, Theodore Lidz, Silvano Arieti, and David Cooper.
The VA and the National Institute of Mental Health owed a great deal of their success to this bill which provided education funding for the nations veterans
What is the GI Bill?
The Doctors that Reviewed the Research
What is Dr. Jessica Utts and Dr. Raymond Hyman? (These were not the researchers on the project, they only reviewed the results of the research. Due to the researchers names most likely still being classified they are left out of the document released to the public)