Word: mentalism
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Director of the Bureau of Study Counsel Charles P. Ducey left his post last month abruptly and silently, just as oversight of Harvard’s mental health resources was transferred to a newly consolidated leadership...
...first acting teacher, Stella Adler, who also wasn't much for "affective memory" (Strasberg's fancy phrase for pearl diving), agreed. "He's the most keenly aware, empathetic human alive. He just knows. If you have a scar, physical or mental, he goes right to it. He cannot be cheated or fooled. If you left the room, he could be you." In those days, he truly loved acting and was fully devoted to it. His mother said to Adler, "Thank you. You've saved Marlon. He had no direction. Now he has direction...
...Sentence Shelved SWEDEN A Stockholm appeals court overturned the life sentence of Mijailo Mijailovic, the convicted murderer of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, ruling that he should instead be sent to a psychiatric unit for treatment. The court upheld his March conviction, but ruled that he was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the 2003 killing. Mijailovic can be released if psychiatrists deem him recovered. Probable Cause FRANCE A preliminary government report concluded that the partial collapse of a terminal building at Charles de Gaulle airport in May, which killed four passengers, was likely caused by metal support...
...them outlandish and fanciful (his suggestion that the Constitution be revisited every 19 years so that each generation could establish its own government) and a couple of them that were repugnant even to some folks in his day (for example, his pseudoscientific notion that blacks are the mental inferiors of whites). All of them are impossible to ignore, though, because of the care he took in writing them down...
...least of it; many divers are found dead with full tanks of air on their backs. Other hazards include the bends--brought on by ascending from the depths too rapidly--unreliable equipment, panicky colleagues grabbing another diver's air supply, collapsing shipwrecks and nitrogen narcosis, a state of mental impairment that afflicts divers below 70 ft. or so. Kurson takes us into the gossipy, cliquey subculture of hard-core wreck divers, men who can come to blows over a chipped teacup from a sunken cruise ship. He also expends a fair amount of ink trying to explain why anybody would...