Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the electric," said Nancy White Horse, who already had many grandchildren of her own. Then, as we stood amid the tall yellow grass by her road, she made me a promise. "You're not the first to fly out here and look around," she informed me with a patient smile. "Nothing ever comes of it, but I'll tell you what: if you can get some houses built for my people, I'll make you a quilt...
...most interesting of these influences is the case history of Freud's patient Emma Eckstein. One of the first patients treated to Freud-style psychoanalysis, Emma suffered from stomach ailments and menstrual problems. Freud's closest personal and professional friend at the time was Wilhelm Fliess, a Berlin physician who developed the unusual theory that sexual problems are closely linked to the nose and could be corrected by nasal surgery. After conferring, the two doctors decided that such surgery might help Emma, and early in 1895 Fliess came to Vienna to operate...
...Freud later wrote to Fliess, the other physician "pulled at something like a thread, kept on pulling and before either one of us had time to think, at least half a meter of gauze had been removed from the cavity. The next moment came a flood of blood. The patient turned white, her eyes bulged, and she had no pulse." However, with the gauze removed and her nose properly bandaged. Emma slowly began to recover from the bungled operation...
...other main influence on Freud's thought, according to Masson, was the criticism and pressure which he received after proposing the seduction theory in the mid-1890's. Standard psychiatric theory in the 19th century emphasized that much of patient's recollections are fantasies, and Freud's original challenge to this orthodoxy was greeted with disapproval. Largely ostracized from the psychoanalytic community. Freud gradually discarded his new theory in order to end his professional isolation, Masson argues...
...That case was a travesty of justice," he added. Although he said doctors had to "flip [this patient] through the abdomen to repair the damges," he added that "the surgeons didn't do anything wrong. In any other hospital, she would have been dead...