Word: anguishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steers the patient away from abstract comments and complaints and focuses on his ingratitude toward the sacrifices of other persons. Many patients break down crying, and some want to commit suicide out of guilt and regret. The final message from the therapist is that the only escape from mental anguish is to plunge into acts of service. The naikan program is used in prisons, schools and offices. Some companies require everyone from the president to the newest hireling to go through...
...Anguish was not Franz Kafka's central obsession. It was his only one: the misery of illness, the descending sorrows of guilt, estrangement and despair. Torment stains every page of his fiction, and his autobiographical writings are so clotted with disorders that one collection states: "Frequent references to insomnia and headache have not been included in the index...
...bars and restaurants in the "Castro," the city's largest homosexual district, interviewing employees and customers about the life-style changes brought on by fear of AIDS. He also visited patients and staff members at San Francisco General Hospital's AIDS clinic. Says Thompson: "For all the anguish and tragedy any new disease inflicts, there is always the possibility of remarkable strides in medicine resulting from the intense concentration of talent, effort and concern an epidemic produces...
...Prison, five men stepped up to five gallows, accompanied only by a hangman, a physician and a prison official. At a signal from the official, the hangman pulled a single lever, springing five trapdoors. Church bells tolled in the black ghetto of Soweto 40 miles away, while cries of anguish and indignation reverberated around the world...
...final anguish of these exiles, caught between the promises of the New World and the curses of the Old, was in belonging to neither. Nonetheless, the refugees, living out of their spiritual suitcases, made significant contributions to their adopted country. If American innocence has been tempered into something less isolated and naive, these tough teachers can be thanked in part. But they paid an awful price in their torn lives. Popular among the emigres was a story of two refugees crossing the Atlantic, one headed for America, one headed back to Europe. As their two ships pass, the old friends...