Word: psychically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, Bishop Marling cites a study by a Catholic priest, "at home in the psychic realm," of St. Teresa of Lisieux (1873-97), who seems to have suffered a severe obsessional neurosis...
...geometrical figures began to dance oddly-shifting their places and changing shape right under the viewer's nose-demonstrating the power of life and movement in the most elementary forms and colors. "The concern of the artist," Albers maintains, "is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect." If that is not the only concern of most artists, it certainly is in Albers' case; he has devoted his life to widening the discrepancy...
...several other speakers who had proposals to make rather than criticisms. Montreal's famed Stressor Hans Selye (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950) flew in to declare his faith that physiological change is related to emotional disturbance. Recent research shows that three classes of hormones can create such varied "psychic" disorders as pathological confusion or excitement, chronic fatigue (neurasthenia), deep depression, psychoses or neuroses during pregnancy, convulsive seizures, paralytic "spells," and even degenerative conditions of the brain and central nervous system...
...cases the physical had come first, the researchers found, and had been aggravated by the mental. But in almost as many cases psychic disturbances had led to behavior that produced physical injury, e.g., the passive-aggressive man who wrecked his car and suffered a fractured skull. If this had been his first accident, it might have been chance, but it was his fifth major accident by the age of 22. In at least six cases there was a nervous disorder producing all the signs of bodily illness-except that when the surgeons checked, they could find nothing wrong to operate...
...close fellowship of British ghost hunters, whose passionate efforts to expose psychic hoaxes are coupled with an ardent desire to believe in the real thing, there was no more joy over the exposure of Harry Price than there was among anthropologists over the fall of the Piltdown man (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953). "Our criticisms have given us no satisfaction," wrote Price's accusers. Harry Price himself, having died in 1948, was beyond making any rebuttal, unless by further spiritual manifestation. The whole business, mourned the Glasgow Herald, "is a melancholy proof of human frailty...