Word: freemans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cause & Effect. Once she understood and accepted this current of subconscious causes and effects, her feelings of fear and guilt were relieved and her self-inflicted sinus inflammation began to clear. When practically everything had been dragged up and exposed to candid consideration, Journalist Freeman felt that she had gotten over her fear of the night, her mad rush to keep busy, her stomachaches, headaches and constipation...
...patients undergoing psychoanalysis keep any notes of the long, soul-searching sessions. If they write anything at all about the experience, they usually fictionalize it under a pseudonym. Not so New York Timeswoman. Lucy Freeman. Like the good reporter she is, Lucy Freeman hurried from the couch to a quiet corner, where she recorded all that seemed important of what she had told the analyst and what he had told her. The literary result: a 332-page book, Fight Against Fears (Crown...
Outwardly, Lucy Freeman seemed to have almost everything a girl could ask. Daughter of a prosperous New York City lawyer, she had grown up in a fine Westchester house near Long Island Sound, where she helped run her father's cabin cruiser. She went to good schools, got good marks, did well in sports, had plenty of dates."She wanted to be a journalist, and soon made the staff of the Times. At 29, she was still unmarried but that, she rationalized, was because her standards were especially high...
Fancied Neglect. Inwardly, Lucy Freeman was in a mess. She had never known more people and never felt lonelier. She was miserable and gripped by a sense of futility. Her stomach was queasy and her sinuses were blocked. After countless painful sinus treatments, a doctor suggested psychoanalysis...
This is a radical operation, difficult even when performed by highly skilled specialists. So Freeman and Watts tried something simpler: the transorbital lobotomy, so called because the instrument is inserted through the eye socket. Freeman reports good results in 47% of 316 cases, fair results in 23%, poor in 28% (deaths...