Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Courad Aiken possess a tremendous ability to trace and realize the aberrations and fixations of the human mental mechanism which he displays impressively in King Coffin. The whole study is brilliantly worked out, convincingly set down. If is a document that should endure
...Resurrection was "the greatest psychic event in all history." The appearance of Christ to his disciples after the Crucifixion was either a phantasm-a mental projection of the personality-or an actual psychic materialization, since Thomas was invited to thrust his fingers into the wounds...
...During the few seconds preceding the jump, the predominant mental factors were fear and excitement. . . . Throughout the free fall, all conscious mental processes seemed normal. As soon as the airplane was cleared, fear and excitement disappeared...
Parents who want superior children must, Dr. Kugelmass advises, first put themselves in good physical and nervous condition. College professors, lawyers and doctors breed more Mongolian idiots than do farmers because their mental life is more exhausting.' Very young parents "tend to produce plain citizens. The very old tend to propagate genius. The greater the disparity in age of parents, the more unusual the characteristics of the child-to-be." Best time for conception, says Dr. Kugelmass, "is immediately before or after the menstrual period. It is then coincident with the woman's most intense feelings of affection...
...than a pin head, the embryo multiplies 2,000 million times to become a 7-pound, 2O-inch baby at birth. It is during the first two months of that marvelous multiplication that malformations generally develop. Hence the pregnant woman must at that time take extraordinary care to avoid mental, emotional or physical shocks. She should drink a great deal of water. Well-nourished wealthy women who do no physical work produce bigger babies than poor working women...