Word: hysteria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freud diagnosed half his "major" cases as hysteria, most of the rest as neuroses or phobias susceptible to treatment. Only 7% of his "minor" patients did he consider to be suffering from psychosis, the most serious class of psychological disorder. Brody speculates that this may have led to the belief, still current, that psychoanalysis does not work with most psychotics...
America imposes the model of a life in which you are supposed to struggle to the top. Society then imposes collective moral sanctions against anyone who does not accept the hysteria. But if you don't accept the model, you are lost as well as hated. You are not so much ostracized as left to find you own way. There's no where left to walk if you refuse to climb their ladder...
From Neurosis to Hysteria...
America imposes the model of a life in which you are supposed to struggle to the top. Society then imposes collective moral sanctions against anyone who does not accept the hysteria. But if you don't accept the model, you are lost as well as hated. You are not so much ostracized as left to find you own way. There's no where left to walk if you refuse to climb their ladder...
...neat little package. We have suffered through the compressed political and sociological tract that demands a remarkable suspension of basic intellectual instincts; muddled through the straight-forward factual account whose tedious details could only interest those who were deeply involved in them; and marveled at the bizarre near-hysteria of the participant who later bared his soul in print...