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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...
His self-analysis had left him with few neurotic cares (among them: an anxiety about missing trains and some irregularity of his bowels, or, as he called them, his Konrad). He worked prodigiously for nine months of the year, received patients from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., with only an...
¶ 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.