Word: freudians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first motive - "thumbsucking without the thumb" - is predictably Freudian, the second is quite practical. The sound waves produced by humming are far more effective than the low volume would indicate. This is because humming is a "purer" tone. "When a person hums, he can blot out most of the sounds of speech," Ostwald reports. "Many hum to themselves while concentrating on tasks, particularly if these involve abstract thinking or fine motor skills...
...Freudian probe" that has unveiled "an abyss within man, full of new embarrassments and a new terror...
Teaching and practicing in Zurich, young Dr. Jung was fired by Freud's descriptions of psychoanalysis. In 1907 he made a pilgrimage to Vienna and was confirmed in the Freudian faith. In the tall Teuton, Freud saw his heir apparent...
...Freudian psychoanalysis and the use of analytic principles in psychiatry, Snezhnevsky & Ko. gave a firm nyet. "We reject psychoanalysis," he said, "because its methods and theory are unscientific. Psychoanalysis rejects the material basis of psychological life. We use instead rational psychotherapy-we prefer to work with the conscious mind, where we find the material bases for mental illnesses...
Only if the patient is violent, or his illness stubbornly persistent, is he sent away to a hospital. His stay there is almost certain to be less than three months. In the hospital, he gets much the same treatment he would get in the West: drugs, psychotherapy (but non-Freudian), insulin coma and, more rarely, electric shock. The Russians have virtually abandoned their prolonged (ten-day) drug-induced sleep treatment because too many patients developed fevers or anemia. As soon as possible, the patient is discharged to his family, which is paid by the government to care...