Word: egos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Readers of this random biography may not be so sure. In throwing together the uncooked condiments of Raw Material, the 44-year-old author of Laughing Boy, Sparks Fly Upward, and The Enemy Gods has plainly been compounding medicine for his own ego. As in a painter's sketchbook, he has drawn the scenes that have caught his fancy: sailing, rowing, his first expedition to the Arizona Indian country, the wonderful new world of New Orleans, where nobody had ever heard of a La Farge or a Grottie and a girl told him frankly, "I like you. I think...
...horn-tooter in an itinerant Army band, had landed in the Fort McPherson Post Hospital; he had been under observation there for a month. Hospital Commandant Colonel Burgh S. Burnett had an old-fashioned diagnosis: there was nothing abnormal about Salvatori's metabolism - it was really only his ego that needed nourishment. "He is an exhibitionist who puts on this eating show for the benefit of fellow soldiers." The Army had him eat alone, restricted his caloric intake...
...Sometimes, though a child is greatly beloved, that love is not shown "by consistent acts of kindness" and the child thinks itself unloved. ¶"Too much love of a certain type" is just as bad, "protecting him from life, filling his suggestible mind with nebulous fears." This results in "ego impotency." ¶The child must be punished, but he should not be allowed to interpret punishment as a withdrawal of love. "Do not forget that the severest punishment a child can receive may be only a facial expression...
...Parents often punish children severely for expressing perfectly normal instincts, especially sex. "The child would not be normal were they absent [but] frequently we see in the childhood of the alcoholic the basis for ego weakness in the false and erroneous attitudes fostered by the parent toward even the presence of these feelings." The child must learn that these instincts are not cause for shame or guilt. ¶"If the child has these pontifical parental attitudes held over him with a rigid denial of freedom to question ... or if too early or too consistently he has been dominated by uncompromising...
...Strong egos should be built in childhood, but failing that, "practically any person can learn how to develop ego strength at any period in life. . . . * It is frequently a long and painful process, but it can be done. To assist the individual in attaining this goal is the work of the psychiatrist, and in the above concept lies the germ of the prevention and also the treatment of alcoholism...