Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Checking the psychological back grounds of some 80 cancer patients, Bahnson found that they all had a "poor, ungratifying, mechanical relationship to their parents." Since the parents were unable or unwilling to respond emotionally, he said, their chil dren developed a tendency to repress rather than express their own emotions...
Later in life this self-imposed lack of emotional outlets made them more vulnerable to tragedy and, therefore, more cancer-prone than the average person...
Other studies cited during the conference support the theory. Research by Dr. William A. Greene at the University of Rochester has shown that a high percentage of cancer patients suffered feelings of extreme helplessness and hopelessness rather than cathartic grief prior to the onset of their illness...
...comparative study of 200 lung-cancer patients and 200 victims of other chest diseases, made by the late Dr.David M. Kissen of Glasgow's Southern General Hospital, revealed that the cancer patients were less able to release their emotions. What's more, researchers reported last week, emotional inhibition parallels high per-capita cancer incidence among many peoples...
Sioux Indians, by contrast, are known to give vent to their emotions with re ative ease. Among them, cancer is virtually nonexistent...