Word: breakdown
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...central question posed by The Good Apprentice is whether Edward can be saved from his paralyzing depression. Harry gives him a pep talk: "You are having a nervous breakdown, you are ill, it is an illness, like pneumonia or scarlet fever, you will receive help, you will be given treatment . . . you will recover." McCaskerville has reservations about his profession, calling psychoanalysis a "mishmash of scientific ideas and mythology and literature and isolated facts and sympathy and intuition and love and appetite for power." Nevertheless, he tries to help Edward: "I'm not telling you not to feel remorse and guilt...
...adviser to the president, Kirby cannot easily criticize Summers—if he were to do so, “the whole institution is headed to a breakdown,” Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier ’60 said in March...
Women comprise 20 percent of Harvard’s senior faculty and over 30 percent of its junior faculty, according to Kirby’s letter. The breakdown continues with women representing 42 percent of junior Faculty in the social sciences and 17 percent—twice the percentage five years ago—in the natural sciences...
...idea seemed crazy at the time; Maxwell’s father and uncle—both Harvard graduates—and her Harvard dance instructor Claire Mallardi, thought that she was having a nervous breakdown and even asked her to see a psychiatrist. To moderate their fears, she began work with an eyes-open meditation—Alexander Technique—that was originally developed for performers by actor Frederick Matthias Alexander. Though Maxwell decided to stick with Alexander Technique, which she describes not as therapy but as an “educational process” that...
...Perhaps the saddest part of teacher? parent breakdown - and possibly a cause of it - is that teachers start out with stars in their eyes. "Time and again," write Sydney University's Ewing and Jackie Manuel, "beginning teachers frame their expectations and their vision of teaching in ways that are redolent of the archetypal odysseys of classical mythology." Perhaps it's just too many viewings of Dead Poets Society, but many student teachers envisage altering the course of young lives: winning over the shy child with empathy and enthusiasm; spotting and nurturing genius in the most unlikely pupils; instilling a love...