Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then suddenly goes to pieces, even his physician will call his condition a nervous breakdown. Technically the businessman is suffering from a neurosis. He is not mad. Nor is he apt to go insane. His inability to cope with people and circumstances has thrown him into a complex mental-emotional turmoil and shaken his entire personality. With a patient, learned psychiatrist as his guide he may clamber out of the debacle and regain a stout hold on life. But the paths he takes must be peculiarly his own. for psychiatrists have not mapped all the bad lands of the neuroses...
Suggestion, "which injects a psychological antitoxin into the patient's mind to drive out the mental infection...
...Kremlin Dictator does not convey his views or orders in a monolog. Like Mussolini, Stalin has the habit, nerve-racking to his henchmen, of asking them first what they think. They may try to guess what he wants them to think, but inevitably Stalin succeeds in digging out much mental meat. He then sums up, gives his decision, and with sighs of relief the henchmen agree. This method, adopted by Mussolini from Machiavelli's II Principe, Stalin evolved from his innate Oriental flair for despotism. Charming when he chooses, Joseph Stalin, big-boned and big-mustached, last week asked...
...express my thanks for the mental gymnastics provided by your current events test? It has served to "jack me up" on my perusal of TIME. Of late I had neglected the cover-to-cover method usually followed, and the test caught me on things I should have known. Incidentally, my latest issue has my fingerprints on every page...
...feels that if coaching were not to be given in many of the minor sports, "the majority of men will get little benefit from their exercise, either in improved skill in one sport or in the better physical and mental condition that results from supervised exercise...