Word: guillet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ardent disciple of Berillon, Lucie Guillet, offered the second message of hope. The science she-and she alone-practices, she calls poetico-therapy: the cure, by poetry, of nervous disorders, or physical ailments arising from them. Madame Guillet is a short woman in her middle sixties with an extraordinarily girlish figure, peroxide blonde hair, bulging green eyes and a seared, flabby face. During her poetic treatments, her normally rasping voice, punctuated by peals of raucous laughter, slips easily from a piercing falsetto to a husky, melodramatic whisper...
...bring to nervous therapeutics a new power-the poetic fluid," Madame Guillet announced. Her science is based on Berillon's theory of cerebral balance. This theory contends that, in the perfectly adjusted human, the right half of the brain, containing will power and reason, exactly balances the left half, which encompasses man's sentimental and mystical qualities. When one side greatly outweighs the other, psychological disorders result...
...Madame Guillet divides poetry's healing properties into rhythm, sonority and inspiration. Read or heard in the proper prescription and doses, it affects the "poetic fluid" in such a way that the brain recovers its equilibrium and nervous disturbances are cured...
Cast Anchor! At the age of 14, Madame Guillet treated her first patient. It was her mother's seamstress, an anemic, timid and depressed creature. "After three or four readings of vigorous poetry," Madame Guillet said, "she became so cocky I could hardly bear her company...