Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College de France, Bataillon devotes most of his time to private study in a method similar to that of the Harvard Society of Fellows, and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies. 'Professor of the Languages and Literatures of the Iberian Peninsula and of Latin America," he gives frequent lectures in Paris...
...Talk? For the couch treatment, patients must not only be supine but intelligent (with I.Q.s, many believe, of 115-120, about college level). Psychoanalysis works best on neuroses (most often of the upper income brackets); it is no good for most psychoses. Besides the protracted, cumbersome and expensive method of the couch, what specific treatments do psychiatrists use? The one that occupies most psychiatrists' time is face-to-face talks about the patients' here-&-now problems...
...milder method of dredging the mind is narcosynthesis (with some such "truth serum" as sodium amytal). In a twilight state between wakefulness and deep sleep, the patient often says things he cannot or will not say when fully conscious. Narcosynthesis works best when the patient's difficulties are recent (as in some "war neuroses"). The most desperate treatment of all, for the patient who fails to respond to anything else, is a drastic brain operation, like lobotomy (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946). Lobotomy may relieve the more troublesome symptoms, but it may also leave the patient so irresponsible or lumpish...
psychoanalysis. A psychological theory. Also one method of treating mental illness: by uncovering deeply hidden emotional conflicts...
...Pluribus Unum. No technical innovator, Author Cozzens demonstrates his theme by the popular "Grand Hotel" method of assembling hordes of people, all with singular points of view, in one place-a huge World War II airbase. in Florida. Some of them are elderly, Regular Army officers to whom the mechanics of war are as vital as the winning of it. Some are much too bogged down in personal miseries and prejudices to recognize the overriding claims of victory: others are far too intent on victory to show any tolerance for human weaknesses. In fact, as Author Cozzens shows, the marvel...