Word: deviant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homosexuality curable? Freud thought not. In the main, he felt that analysis could only bring the deviant patient relief from his neurotic conflicts by giving him "harmony, peace of mind, full efficiency, whether he remains a homosexual or gets changed." Many of Freud's successors are more optimistic. Philadelphia's Dr. Samuel Hadden reported last year that he had achieved twelve conversions out of 32 male homosexuals in group therapy. Paris Psychiatrist Sacha Nacht reports that about a third of his patients turn heterosexual, a third adjust to what they are, and a third get no help...
Another problem in characterization arises because Godard tries to present Nana's life as an example of a way to salvation. In. her attempt to combine the roles of philosopher, sexual deviant and refugee from Feiffer's world, she seems too pathetic to be a model...
...data emphasizes somatotypes (body-types), psychological and psychiatric findings, early parent-child relationships, school history, and deviant behavior...
...lead poisoning. Psychiatric social workers try to cleanse the poisonous emotional atmosphere in a pica child's home; once that is done, it is relatively easy to cure the child of pica. But if the trouble persists beyond age six, the child usually develops some other form of deviant behavior. Now the Washington researchers are checking to see whether, as they suspect, a pica child becomes easy prey to other addictions later in life, such as compulsive eating, alcoholism or the drug habit...
...historical perspective it may be impossible to say whether they succeeded or failed. Yet it is a fact of politics that individual hopes ride on expedient fusions like this peace march; one must delve into its complex purposes and distinguish the dominant from the variant and the deviant in order to say yea or nay with more than prejudice...