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Some findings confound expectations. For example, Patricia Gwartney-Gibbs, a sociology professor at the University of Oregon, has found that women are just as likely, if not more likely, to engage in lower-level violence. Many researchers hypothesize that women's acts of aggression are often in self- defense. Yet men, because of their greater strength, inflict more injuries. "When you are talking about severe violence, it's a man's court," says David Sugarman, a professor of psychology at Rhode Island College. Researchers have also discovered that the longer couples stay together, the more probable it is that violence...
...city was listed as a depressed area. Then it boosted the tax on land and cut the tax on buildings by reassessing them. In the resulting building spurt, Southfield has been constructing office space faster than neighboring Detroit, a city 30 times its size. Said Assessor G. Ted Gwartney: "All we had to do was throw off the shackles...
...standard cough suppressants-syrup, steam inhalations, potassium iodide, codeine and various barbiturates-had no effect. After eight days of steady coughing at 15-to-30-second intervals, the girl was close to death from exhaustion. As a last resort, Dr. Richard Gwartney, a specialist in psychosomatic medicine, attempted a much-debated remedy: medical hypnosis. With several attendant physicians, Gwartney sat by the girl's bed and explained what he intended to do, without mentioning the term hypnotism. Said he, in a report on the case last week: "It was all verbal suggestion. I told her she wanted...
...Gwartney then went on planting his suggestions: that the urge to cough could be resisted, that she would feel much better if it was. In the course of three hypnotic treatments, he suggested that she could suppress the cough for longer and longer intervals, starting with one minute and building up to a full hour. On the second day, the girl was instructed to cough only when absolutely necessary; on the third day she was discharged...
...Gwartney is quick to point out that hypnotic treatment did not "cure" the cough, but merely planted in the patient's mind the idea that she could suppress it herself. The girl still coughs occasionally, since there is a physical cause for the symptom, but her own knowledge that she can stop if she wishes has prevented long paroxysms...
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