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...Some archaeologists believe that holes drilled in prehistoric skulls represent efforts to release the demons of madness. During the Middle Ages, those who heard voices were frequently burned at the stake. As recently as the 1950s, psychiatrists blamed the disorder on parents, specifically a cold, "schizophrenogenic" mother, though Freud himself had concluded that the illness had biological roots...
...Freud, of course, was right. Modern research indicates that the tendency to develop schizophrenia is hereditary. While the average child has a 1% chance of being stricken, the child of a schizophrenic parent faces 10 times those odds, and if both parents are affected, the likelihood jumps to 40%. But genes do not tell the whole story. Children of parents with schizophrenia raised by adoptive parents who don't have the illness have a somewhat reduced risk. In addition, if one identical twin has the disorder, the odds are just 50% that the other will. Clearly, environmental factors -- stress...
...eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx or Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolts and therefore pile...
...pleasures of reading Lemann lie in her sure characterization and limpid style. If she has heard of Freud, she keeps it to herself. Her people, whether brisk and dignified or drunk and disorderly, are presented as distinct personalities whose actions, however odd, are inevitable and to be accepted. Little Al, age three, is impossibly wise. Margaret, from Memphis, is more than disorderly and is locked up regularly. But she is also "a glamour girl and old-style Southern belle." When the vignettes threaten to stretch credibility, Lemann unerringly interweaves a little writing just for its own sake, perhaps a nature...
...good cigar was an accessory of manly success for at least a century. Prominent puffers included Winston Churchill, Al Capone, Groucho Marx, Jack Kennedy, even Sigmund Freud and Vladimir Lenin. Then came the 1964 Surgeon General's report on the perils of smoking and a sea change in American attitudes toward tobacco that eventually pushed sales into a steady decline. Cigar fans faced not only dirty glares but also signs and waiters telling them to butt out of public places...