Word: confessional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scuttled. In Croydon, England, Vice Admiral Sir John Edgell took a careful second look at his notes, abruptly ended his speech before the Royal Navy Old Comrades Association with a confession: "By mistake I brought a shopping list my wife gave me . . ."
A Call for Help. With the elections in the offing-and Democrats making hay with the case-Hull denounced the recordings as a fake, and demanded another grand jury. Governor Green's attorney general sent a special prosecutor to Peoria to handle it. Last week the second grand jury...
As the patient talks, the psychoanalyst listens for evidence of "unconscious wishes." of "suppressed desires," of hidden motives. He watches for these signs in accounts of dreams, in words, in reported actions, in sudden hesitations and slips of the tongue, in strange lapses of memory. As the talks go on...
The Unconscious & Confession. The means psychiatry uses to make its cures are often experimental, and sometimes obscure. What about its ends? It aims to make its patients "wise up" to themselves -and thus get rid of a mysterious bellyache or a sad, twisted notion that a prince is coming to...
On short acquaintance and after two calls, he had proposed to Widow Martha Custis, yet, engaged to her, he could still write to his best friend's wife: "You have drawn me, dear Madam, or rather I have drawn myself, into an honest confession of a simple fact. Misconstrue...