Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their solitary thoughts form separate sections that are strung together like so many pieces of reality, doing away with chapters or divisions based primarily on action. Drabble succeeds with this difficult method, and she needn't intrude, as she occasionally does, to inform the reader of what she is doing or to comment on a character. Frances and the other characters stand on their own: they don't need any explanation...
There was a consensus that the CRR should be reformed, Johnson said, but she added that the group disagreed on the best method of trying to reform...
...training, thought "people will soon control phobias and anxieties." Psychopharmacologist Barbara Brown (New Mind, New Body) predicted a drastic drop in the use of medication and the number of hospitals within a decade. Among other heady predictions: biofeedback would eliminate the need for psychotherapy, provide a foolproof birth control method (by teaching males to lower their scrotal temperatures), produce superathletes, prove the reality of ESP and enable mankind to solve problems during sleep by "programming dreams...
...been significant or lasting outside the laboratory. Despite claims of 80% success, migraine research has been a headache for some biofeedback experimenters because of the placebo effect - a certain number of ailments vanish, not as a result of biofeedback but simply because the patient has faith in the method. Says Miller: "Many of these headaches would have disappeared if the patients were treated with extract of watermelon...
...SPRING OF 1971, the Faculty changed the method of selecting student members for the CRR in the hope of finding students to serve on it. But twice that spring in University-wide referenda, students voted to boycott the CRR, temporarily foiling the Faculty's attempt to lend legitimacy to the CRR through student participation. In 1973, there was an attempt to nominate students for the CRR from Leverett House, but that failed, leaving the boycott intact...