Word: mental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Outlines- of History - of Science - of Art large, impressive looking books - copiously illustrated - well printed - mental bouillon cubes for an age that takes its information like its breakfast cereal, on the run, and, if possible, predigested - another century may find, perhaps, the whole scope of human knowledge boiled down and salted away in one magnificent, laconic Outline of Outlines, supplanting colleges and five-foot shelves alike. At any rate, here is the first volume of The Outline of Literature - 294 pages covering the rise and progress of human letters from the first books in the world...
...road to learning, but within its scope it is valuable and, as far as space allows, complete. Readably written, though without any touch of distinction, its obvious merits should bring it wide and deserved popularity. It will set no mind afire, in all probability-but then, the most valuable mental eruptions are generally produced by spontaneous combustion...
...applicants receive a thorough mental and physical diagnosis. The cases treated are chiefly well-known psychiatric types?multiple personalities, obsessions, phobias, depression and melancholy, hypochondria. The treatment consists largely in recognized psychoanalytic methods of probing the patient's mental life, revealing the forgotten early experiences, hereditary or other causes which initiated the difficulty, and encouraging the sufferer to face and conquer his own troubles. Fifty patients a day are coming to the clinic, many of them intelligent and refined persons, and excellent results have already been secured...
...similar clinic has been opened recently at the Plymouth Congregational Church, Seattle, Wash., Dr. Chauncey J. Hawkins, minister. The clinic does not follow the methods of Coué, or the Emmanuel Movement, though it recognizes and utilizes the mental elements in healing. The treatment is entirely in the hands of responsible physicians and psychologists, without interference by the clergy...
...mental condition of the woman who translated into German the novels of H. G. Wells...