Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...played some of the most exciting tennis of the weekend. She made it through the D-Flight to the third-place match, where she lost a thrilling three-setter, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, to Roth. Flink impressed her teammates with her strong returns, great shot placement and mental toughness...
Despite his early call to duty, Hassan, 51, managed to obtain a formidable education. That was a privilege denied Hussein, who was proclaimed King at age 16 after his father Talal, was dethroned because of mental illness. In the absence of Talal--hospitalized in Istanbul, where he died in 1972, Hussein took on a paternal role in the life of Hassan, who was only five when their father departed. Hussein sent Hassan to England's prestigious Harrow School and then to Oxford University's Christ Church College, where he received a B.A. and an M.A. in oriental studies, specializing...
...effective for treating neuroses (relatively benign emotional disorders), Dolnick targets psychoanalysts who tried to cure psychoses (marked disorders of perception or reality) with talk therapy alone. From the 1940s to the 1970s an aggressive cabal of psychoanalysts fit such a bill; they scoffed at the biological origins of mental illness, eschewed treating schizophrenia with drugs and thought that their "talking" forms of therapy could single-handedly illuminate the darkest corners of the human psyche. Their intention was to unlock the mysteries of human consciousness. Their legacy, instead, was to open a Pandora's box of misdiagnoses...
Rakow says that keeping that interest going in the stressful world of Harvard has been surprisingly easy. She says that karate's mental side--which stresses maintaining a calm, clear focus--has helped her in other ways as well...
...brain drain in our nation, and Harvard students could do a great deal to alleviate that...In general the great minds of our nation are drawn to more lucrative careers...Instead, I wish that students who obtain world class educations, like the one Harvard offers, would consider sharing their mental wealth with the next generation...