Word: mind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...light, he occasionally appears to bend the facts to fit the moment. His skein of contradictory statements about the reasons for firing U.S. Attorney David Marston, who was probing political corruption in Pennsylvania, was most likely one of those convenient misunderstandings, probably a tiny incident in Carter's mind to get him over a small embarrassment...
These imposing figures are apparently only the beginning of what President Sadat has in mind. After the signing, Sadat plans to stay on in Washington to push for U S acceptance of his $15 billion economic development scheme, which he calls "the Carter Plan." With some justification, the Egyptian President argues that his courageous pursuit of peace has isolated him dangerously in the Middle East Egypt is threatened by radical regimes in Libya and elsewhere. From within, it faces the same kind of Islamic fundamentalist forces that helped topple the Shah of Iran. The solution, Sadat believes, is to wage...
...exercises in self-help as biofeedback and Transcendental Meditation; at the other end, close-order drill for the psyche, like est. All but trampled by this stampede toward satisfaction lies the battered body of the medical specialty that once held the exclusive franchise for curing all maladies of the mind. Obviously it no longer does?one reason why psychiatry itself is now on the couch...
...biochemist, psychobiologist, neurophysiologist and psychopharmacologist are attracting scarce federal funds and replacing traditional psychiatrists as chairmen of hospital psychiatry departments. The field offers what psychiatry seems to have been yearning for all through the 1970s: scientific expertise, medical underpinnings and an escape from the troublesome subjectivity of the human mind...
...thinks the current exploits of his field are on a par with Einstein's revolutionary formulation E = mc˛. Says he: "The discovery of the neuroregulators may prove as important to humanity as that equation. We are on the edge of a new era." Also a Brave New World of mind-controlling drugs. Before long, according to some researchers, it will be possible to inject or extract chemicals to get almost any desired behavior, good...