Word: neuroticisms
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Neuroses do not always explode into nervous breakdowns. Habitual stammering, scratching the nose, twiddling, scolding or recoiling are signs of trouble in one's personality and serve as safety valves. If such signs of nervousness continue for a long time a neurotic disease is almost certain to develop. Among...
Children, as well as adults, may suffer nervous breakdowns. Overwork does not cause them, although it may precipitate an attack. There is nothing in the popular idea that only the wealthy have breakdowns. Nothing has yet been definitely established as to the role of heredity in causing neuroses. In general...
It is nothing new, of course, for the Dramatic Club to be producing dramas, and yet it is a distinctly new and refreshing omen that the Dramatic Club has recovered from its psycho-neurotic obsession that has been tormenting us for at least the last two years. For these last...
That he could never be, but James Thurber quickly established himself as one of the ablest, easily the maddest member of the neurotic crew that staffs the brightest weekly in the U. S. For two years no one but his friend and fellow editor, Elwyn Brooks ("Andy") White, could see...
Watteau was a gloomy neurotic who never married, never stayed long in one place, snubbed his friends, had neither morals nor vices, distrusted himself and his painting and worked stupendously. In 1716 the Italian comedians whom Louis XIV's prudish mistress, Maintenon, had banished 19 years before, were called back...