Word: normalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of undergraduates organized Harvard Warmth last Fall, patterning it after a chapter at Columbia University. Somit said Warmth was founded to provide "a place for people to come down and speak in a normal atmosphere." Free coffee was provided, and cards and games were available...
...fact ominous. Adolescence is the stage of life when a whole series of self-destructive and socially-destructive adaptations, from criminality to schizophrenia, first make their appearance. In adolescence, these adaptations are least rigidified, and are easiest to prevent or treat. Separating these ominous developments from the normal difficulties of adolescents is an important task. In the end, the skilled adult who attempts to differentiate the ominous from the normal must fall back on developmental criteria, attempting to judge whether the adolescent's behavior reflects the routine turbulence of forward movement or the agitation of truly blocked development...
...objectivity, his quest for all-embracing companionship, his search for answers from the adult world. In the presence of such routine inner turmoil, emotional stress is an everyday byproduct. In fact, in adolescence (an age which Erikson wryly says lasts "from puberty to maturity"), the psychological mechanisms which normally maintain emotional reactions within a reasonable range, swing so erratically that it is very hard to determine when the degree of stress is such that it is simply part of growing up and when it is part of an emotional disorder. No one would wish to institute psychotherapy with young...
...While little can be said with confidence about "normal" aggressive behavior, it is fairly clear that there are persons who from time to time experience episodes of uncontrolled violence and that such persons are different from normal persons, much in the way that persons with alcoholism can be said to be different. Indeed there appears to be some overlap. The characteristics of persons who from time to time end up in situations where they "cannot control themselves" are only now beginning to be studied but there appears to be a repeated association between pathological intoxication, unrestrained physical attacks on other...
...differentiation of normal development crisis from emotional disorder, this ability to pick out disturbance but to avoid potentially weakening or infantilizing interference must be the concern of every educator and mental health worker," he said...