Word: mentally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...comedy that witnesses a complete victory of manner over matter, "The Command To Love" provides a pleasant evening's entertainment with a minimum of mental effort...
...made up of some of the best men in the profession: Menas S. Gregory, neurological director of the psychopathic department of Bellevue Hospital; Stanley R. Benedict of the Cornell University Medical School; Thomas McGoldrick, medical director of Saint Peters Hospital, Brooklyn; Israel Strauss, president of the Jewish Mental Health Society; George B. Wallace, assistant physician, Bellevue Hospital and Linsly R. Williams, director of the New York Academy of Medicine...
Other forms of revolt, such as protest against the no-car rule and compulsory military training, he finds to be mild, evidently because of the lack of mental alertness on the part of students. But in explaining the lack of protest against the unreasonableness of the 12:30 ruling, he appears a little illogical when he says that it may be due in part to the ingenuity with which ways of evading the rule are devised...
...laid to the fathers by psychoanalysis, and the fathers return the compliment. What is more, from the point of view of the academicians, psychopathology is no science, and never will be, and hence it is damned. The kernel of it all is that the blue print of the mental underworld which it submits to our attention is so compromising to us all that at bottom we recoil. Psychopathology is, like "un bon petit diable", always up to mischief, and hence may be counted upon to infuriate the disciplined thinker on the one hand and the hundred percenter on the other...
...convenient forms of description for otherwise indescribable phenomena. It is the concept of the unconscious however that has raised the most bitter antagonism. To the psychologists who have had a first hand acquaintance with the eccentricities of the mind it has become increasingly clear that a complete description of mental phenomena was impossible without the supposition of processes in every way similar to those subjectively apprehended as psychical occurring outside the field of awareness. This had led to the paradoxical notion of "unconscious conscious processes", which has so puzzled the academic psychologists. This idea, however, should...