Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems to have been satisfactorily resolved in non-scientific fields. With retired scientists, the University faces a definite problem. The academic life seems to agree with men, and academicians at 66 have many good years left. While not exactly in the prime of life, they still posses fully adequate mental awareness to make an important contribution to the intellecual life of the University. To forcibly remove them from their work seems cruel indeed...
...Mental Charts. Darvas' system is tailored to his job. Since he has to do trading from wherever he is dancing (he recently completed an Asian tour) he ignores tips, financial stories and brokers' letters, has never been in a broker's office. Basically, his approach is that of a chartist: he watches price and volume. But the only charts he keeps are in his head. He studies the weekly stock tables in Barren's, receives a nightly wire from his broker giving the high, low and closing of stocks he is following, as well...
Thomas Fisher's "Cross-Cultural Study of Psychotherapy" is an attempt to determine whether certain elements of mental therapy exist universally in sample cultures. Fisher finds that such therapy, as a means of dealing with undesirable deviants from a culture's norms, does involve common elements in the deviant-therapist relationship. Western psychoanalysis, the Navaho "Singer" treatment and related ritualistic healings in the cultures of the Saulteaux, Yurok, and Guatemalan Indians have certain points in common. Especially significant are the common traits of curing through an emotional experience, with the assumption that the cause of the disturbance lies beyond...
Washburn's Hundred Dollar Rats depends largely upon characterization. Through repetitive statements that indicate they are perchance victims of some sort of mental imbalance his characters are carefully and knowingly sketched. Jack Houseman ("It's all the same--what does it matter") is very wealthy, very sick, and a collector of hideous Victorian furniture and bric-a-brac. His wife, Whiffy ("It's crazy! It's crazy!) doesn't really believe in collecting things, yet collects match covers avidly, wants to sell Jack's Victoriana for money, yet is terribly bored with money...
...editors, however, have left unfulfilled the second part of their goal: that of recording "experience" and of having their publication cast "a light in its own right, a sort of headlamp throwing parts of mental landscape into severe relief." The catholicity of the book itself precludes effective discrimination. But more important, one misses a sense of perceptivity in their comments on the lecture system, on work outside the classroom, on the honors system or on tutorial. The writers have remained content as scribes with no ambition to be analysts. There is no reason why men who have studied the community...