Word: psychics
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...victims of burnout deal with the possibility that being unqualified for the work involved and the psychic energy needed to hide the fact may be the strongest contributing factors in the development of the syndrome...
...salvage my reputation after a less-than-psychic weekend last time around, I am turning to that oldest of gambling gimmicks, the Upset Special...
...International Psychoanalytical Association for unorthodox practices (his sessions with patients were sometimes as brief as five or even three minutes); of an abdominal tumor; in Paris. Lacan, who last year dissolved the Freudian School on the ground that it had fallen into "deviations and compromises," maintained that adult psychic disorders often stemmed from the learning of language-and the repression of nonverbal ideas and urges-during childhood...
...biggest difficulties with the concept of burnout is that it has become faddish and indiscriminate, an item of psychobabble, the psychic equivalent, in its ubiquitousness, of jogging. Burnout has no formal psychiatric status. Many psychoanalysts regard the malady as simply that old familiar ache, depression. Even so, plenty of professionals take burnout seriously. Psychological journals are heavy with analyses of burnout...
...guzzlin' quarter horses: shotguns are displayed in the rear windows, and western music yips through the air conditioning. Whether the collars be blue or button-down, frontier chic is a perennial fashion. Our conviction that the cowboy was an enviable individualist in denim persists like a psychic saddlesore...