Word: loved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections: that... I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere...
conversion. Not to be confused with the religious term. A symptom of mental sickness: an unfulfilled, unconscious desire causes a bodily ache, pain, etc. (e.g., an upset stomach because of a disappointment in love...
After investigating many patients, Freud decided that the basis of almost all personality conflicts is "sexual." He used the word in a very broad sense to include all kinds of love and pleasure, from eating to a fondness for abstract thought. His emphasis on sex caused bitter breaks with two of his most famous followers: Carl Jung, who was sniffy about Freud's emphasis on "sexuality" in infants, and Alfred Adler, who believed that a "drive for power" was equal in importance with "sexual urges...
Psychotherapy (the treatment of mental illness) includes other surprising-and less unpleasant-methods. At the Menninger clinic, for instance, doctors might prescribe, for a depressed patient, "two weeks of unsolicited love." This means that the patient's doctor and nurses should treat him with the full measure of brotherly love that he needs but does not know how to ask for. Psychiatrists also use music as a soother, and such "occupational therapy" as publishing newspapers, carpentry and jewelry-making...
...philosopher of the Menninger family is Will's older brother, Dr. Karl, 55, author of The Human Mind, Man Against Himself, Love Against Hate. Dr. Karl makes penetrating generalizations on psychiatry, and teaches other psychiatrists.* The two brothers, philosopher and organizer, work together well, with little evidence of what psychiatrists call "sibling rivalry" (jealousy among brothers & sisters). Dr. Karl and their father, Dr. Charles Frederick ("Dr. C.F."), founded the Menninger Clinic in 1920. Dr. C.F., who started as a horse-&-buggy doctor, got the idea from the Mayos. Now a gentle man of 86, he teaches mineralogy and seashell...