Word: neuroticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plaits & Sedatives. Trillat found that many neurotic children, some of them stutterers, could not follow through. "There were children who couldn't even open a door with a single gesture. They would pull it in a series of hesitant, jerky movements." Such cases he starts out with a series...
¶ Hypochondria. Because of the delicacy of his vocal organ, the tenor is forced to baby his voice. Many carry this to extremes, even denying themselves sex for 48 hours before a performance because it may coarsen their tone. (One contemporary tenor has refined this after learning by a process...
Choosing a house is like getting married. You'll spend most of your time in other houses, so why worry? But all the poor, neurotic freshmen are taking what they think is the big step this week, and we might as well be sympathetic. So far, most of us have...
That anyone can take these ravings and doodlings seriously is symptomatic of our morally degenerate and neurotic generation.
"The analytic movement has spawned a dozen heresies, and illustrates the process whereby the least certainty generates the greatest dogmatism . . . Grandiose fantasies of reforming the world are common." Dr. Emanuel tartly quotes an eminent fellow Canadian, Psychiatrist Brock Chisholm, former (1948-53) head of U.N.'s World Health Organization...