Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hungarian-born Eugen Varga was a major prophet among Soviet economic seers. He undertook to make an analysis of the war's effect on the economy of capitalist countries. After patient study of the portents, he put his conclusions in a book which was not allowed circulation outside a close circle of party potentates...
...Because she was tired, nervous and rundown, her doctor put her in the hospital three days early. She had time to rest up; the hospital staff had time to make blood tests, check her heart, get acquainted with her mental and physical state, know her as both person and patient. Mrs. Doe came out of the anesthetic with no nausea; after a day's rest she was sitting up. After two days she began to walk; in a week she was home. Her scar was a thing of surgical beauty...
...test, the patient studies each set of eight photographs, and picks out the two faces that seem "most attractive" and the two that seem "most repellent." The test-taker is asked to run through the strange, leering faces again & again, perhaps as often as ten times. His choices, blocked in on a complicated scorecard like a crossword puzzle blank, are revealing to the psychiatrist. The filled-in squares on the scorecard can be translated into signs of "conflict" in the four fundamental fields of sexuality, emotional control, "ego structure" (estimate and control of self) and "object relationship" (adjustment to reality...
...believes that he could eliminate people whose unconscious would never allow them to commit murder. The test, he thinks, would also reveal those whose unconscious makes them capable of murder. In ordinary use, Szondi says, the test will furnish "an X-ray picture of the psychic structure" of the patient, reveal "the hereditary content of the unconscious." It can also act as a warning to an engaged couple that their choices of pictures reveal latent sick genes so similar that marriage would be dangerous...
First reactions: Szondi's theories about inheritance of the subconscious are of doubtful value, but his tests may prove useful in the hands of well-trained technicians. The tests may even become as important as the Rorschach tests, in which the patient is asked to say what he "sees" in ink blots...