Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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unconscious. The submerged part of the mind that contains urges, feelings and drives forgotten or ignored by the conscious part of the mind...
...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...
...philosopher of the Menninger family is Will's older brother, Dr. Karl, 55, author of The Human Mind, Man Against Himself, Love Against Hate. Dr. Karl makes penetrating generalizations on psychiatry, and teaches other psychiatrists.* The two brothers, philosopher and organizer, work together well, with little evidence of what psychiatrists call "sibling rivalry" (jealousy among brothers & sisters). Dr. Karl and their father, Dr. Charles Frederick ("Dr. C.F."), founded the Menninger Clinic in 1920. Dr. C.F., who started as a horse-&-buggy doctor, got the idea from the Mayos. Now a gentle man of 86, he teaches mineralogy and seashell...
psychiatry. The science of healing diseases of the mind, a branch of medicine. (Psychiatrists must be M.D.s...
psychology. A science that investigates and describes the mind. "Clinical psychology" investigates mental illness or maladjustment. (Psychologists need not be M.D.s...