Word: automatisme
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Meanwhile, Gertrude worked on psychological projects. She collaborated with Leon M. Solomons, a graduate student working on his doctorate in philosophy. Their first attempt, which was "connected with a tuning. Fork," failed because neither had an ear for music. Their second project, on fatigue, proved no more successful. Gertrude next...
The first of Miss Stein's published works appeared in the Psychological Review, 1896. This report, entitled Normal Motor Automatism, was largely the work of co-author Solomons. "After all," she wrote, "I was an undergraduate and not a professional and as I am always very docile...." Though the article...
Even in minute quantities, triiodothyronine made a marked difference in 14 patients (one showed no response, and nine others showed slight changes, usually a decrease in resentment). To the psychiatrists trying to make closer contact with patients for more effective treatment, the important thing was that the 14 became markedly...
In dealing with the insane, it is sometimes necessary to resort to the Binet-Féré method of fascination by which, if it is successful, complete automatism is induced. The subject is asked to look fixedly at the operator's right eye, and the operator stares fixedly...
Since life tends to degenerate into a simple automatism, in which one makes no question why, and allows habit to answer for when and allows habit to answer for when and where and how, consure of minor mannerism should not be caustic; all men put the shoe upon the same...