Word: janes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ECONOMY OF CITIES, by Jane Jacobs. With a love of cities that overshadows mere statistics, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities explores the financial aspects of growth and decay in urban centers...
...ECONOMY OF CITIES, by Jane Jacobs. With a love of cities that overshadows mere statistics, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities explores the financial aspects of growth and decay in urban centers...
...ECONOMY OF CITIES, by Jane Jacobs. Operating as curmudgeon and gadfly, but with a love of cities that overshadows mere statistics, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities explores the financial aspects of growth and decay in urban centers...
EIGHT years ago, Jane S. listened numbly to voices from what she called the "optimological world." They told her to wear heavy clothing in summer, to avoid bathing or speaking to people and never to leave Illinois' Anna State Hospital. For 27 years, she had been considered an incurable schizophrenic. Today, Jane lives in a small town working as a companion to an elderly woman. She shows no sign of ever having been a mental patient...
...Jane's rescue from the subhuman existence of a mental-hospital ward is one of several hundred dramatic improvements that have been achieved by a relatively new-and hotly debated -technique known as reinforcement therapy. Unlike psychiatric techniques which seek to deal with deep-seated causes of a patient's psychosis, reinforcement therapy concentrates on controlling and guiding everyday behavior. Its basic principle is that the residual signs of normality in an insane person should be encouraged by praise and applause-in effect, reinforced and taught with the help of tangible rewards...