Word: neuroticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Doubter. Sometimes the doctor's anxiety is vented in hostility. When he says ". . . Damn neurotic-nothing wrong with him," Dr. Ebaugh believes that it can be translated as: "This patient is emotionally disturbed . . . I am doubtful of my own capabilities. By denying that the patient is sick, and...
¶The story of a neurotic dog called Nick (or, as the French broadcaster put it, un brave toutou qui dement neurasthénique).
Maurois seems to think it did. He maintains that sickness "increases the power of analysis" and that Proust's neurotic throwbacks to childish ways were part & parcel of his genius ("To remain a child is to become a poet"). Such a relating of art to neurosis, quite fashionable these...
Proust was certainly a neurotic, but there was in him also both the strength of will and the self-discipline which made it possible for him to spend hours hunting down details for his book, revising parts -; of it over & over again, planning its total structure with the care of...
What do Americans think of their teachers? Judging by the work of U.S. authors, not much. It is sad but true, says Psychologist Don C. Charles of the University of Nebraska, that in U.S. literature "teachers appear pretty generally as stereotypes-and rather unflattering stereotypes at that": neurotic spinsters, frustrated...