Word: neuroticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Word has gone out that this season's TV dramas are to be "happy stories about happy people with happy problems." NBC's Television Playhouse, which TV-men laughingly called the "neurotic hour" because it pioneered in the realistic plays of Paddy (Marty) Chayefsky and Horton (The Trip...
Brother, Brother. To set up the elections, officials of the caretaker Masjumi (Moslem) Party government of Burhanuddin Harahap used a fleet of 100 yachts and fishing boats, air-force planes, army trucks, oxcarts and 3,500 bicycles to transport ballots. They distributed millions of leaflets, showing the different par ty...
¶ Intelligence. (Barron and colleagues found that neurotic patients at a psychiatric clinic had chances of successful treatment in proportion to their intelligence.)
Sex in the Cradle. Says Biographer Jones flatly: "In 1901 Freud, at the age of 45, had attained complete maturity a consummation of development that few people really achieve." Jones credits this victory over neurotic disturbances, including inferiority feelings, to the "imperishable feat" of the four-year self-analysis that...
One purpose of the course is to prepare future ministers to detect signs of incipient mental illness in situations that might be inaccessible to psychiatrists, e.g., neurotic "religious experiences" or morbid guilt feelings. On such matters many parishioners might more readily accept the advice of a clergyman than a doctor...