Word: couched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Stimson, crippled with arthritis, was helped into a car so that he could enjoy the fine weather. Suddenly he doubled forward in pain. He was dead soon after they got him home and lowered him gently to a living-room couch...
...Lying on Couch...
...experience with Jim left Dorothy with some strong views: "I can't see that a mother's apron strings are much worse than a psychiatrist's couch. Maybe it is unsophisticated and 'naive oversimplification' to handle one's own problems to the best of one's ability . . . But something like this was the basis of mental health for hundreds of years before Adler, Jung and Freud...
Count to Seven. To exorcise such a demon engram, the dianetics patient lolls on a couch or easy chair in a dimly lit room. The auditor says: "When I count from one to seven your eyes will close." He keeps counting to seven until the patient's eyes close. (The patient, says Hubbard, is still awake but in "reverie.") In a typical procedure, the auditor may next command: "Let us return to your fifth birthday." The patient's mind is then supposed to slip back along its "time track" to that birthday. Having "returned," he "relives" the experience...
...persuaded to audit an actor's wife who had suffered from migraine. Says Dessler: "She was suffering a severe headache, but it wasn't like migraine. It seemed to be sharp and on either side of the head. Finally, she actually experienced birth. She crouched on the couch in foetal position with her head between her knees." She attributed the pain she felt to the pull of the forceps on her head. Having relived her birth, her migraine disappeared...