Word: normal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learn all over again how to talk to normal people," he said. "I had to force myself to look a person in the eye and forget about myself while I tried to get inside his head. I had to schedule my day's activities according to The Man's requirements rather than to the cycle of my feelings...
...students interviewed made it back in a relatively short time--but time enough for therapy, freedom from normal social pressures, experiments in behavior, and a lot of thinking to prepare them for dealing with other people's realities. For most the process of coming back was a series of forays into the world. One girl went to classes while spending nights at McLean. Another student worked for awhile before returning to Harvard...
...rebel against. You suddenly become the adult instead of the one being taken care of, and you find it's not that easy. This enables you to take another look, to review your relationships with other people. And changes do occur without therapy, without any such thing--as a normal process of growth...
What you get, then, eventually, in a good working case-aide group, is a kind of group process--normal group process, not group therapy. This is definitely not group therapy. You get a normal group process, provided that the membership doesn't flit in and out and provided that they do bring a certain amount of dedication to their work...
...effect a lot of the people at Harvard who are isolated and lonely have come to expect this. It's normal and they will have it for the rest of their lives...