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...late Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, began his professional life as a hypnotist. Failing to cure neurotics by hypnotic suggestion, he gave it up to develop his analytic technique. Some Freudians have recently begun to swing back to certain possibilities of hypnosis -among other things - as a shortcut to cure...
Madame Chiang Kaishek, who spent three months in a U.S. hospital on her last visit (1942-43) to the Western Hemisphere, arrived by plane in Brazil. She was suffering from nervous exhaustion and insomnia, planned a three-month rest cure. In China, she had been under the care of U.S. Assistant Naval Attaché Commander Frank Harrington, said he had warned her that "I'd never be cured if I stayed in Chungking...
Courts martial voted criminals' penalties for careless, crackpot boys; still there was reckless flying. Probably there was no universal cure for the problem children whom the Army calls hedgehoppers, the Navy flat-hatters...
...they scrimp & save to send their children to school and college, and spend money on school buildings and equipment, Americans in general act as though they believe education is a cure for every social ill. But in the way they fail to bestow pay, respect and freedom on their teachers, Americans seem not to understand the first thing about education. Last week the National Opinion Research Center (University of Denver) supplied further evidence of this national ignorance...
Fortunately, thinks Maier, German frustration is likely to lead to its own partial cure. As bombing and invasion intensify the German people's frustration and reduce their capacity for external aggression, Maier predicts that they will turn their pent-up fury on their own leaders, kill Hitler and other conspicuous Nazis. If they do not thus take matters into their own hands, he believes the solution of the German problem may be indefinitely prolonged. For he fears that war-guilt trials by the United Nations would only heighten the frustrated furor Teutonicus, while failure to punish the Nazi leaders...