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Depression can so severely curtail the gifted student's academic function- ing that he has to dropout, he continued. "Thus, the intra-psychic gap between his ideal image of self and his real image leads to a gap between his intellectual potential and performance," he said...
...general health preoccupation in many neurotic and phychotic disorders and as illustrative of the essential psychobiologic unity of the organism. There is also the implication that many students who seek psychiatric help may already have been seen in the medical or surgical clinics, and some signs of their psychic distress may have been evident at that time. Many people apparently find it easier to go to the general physician rather than the psychiatrist. The results do indicate the value of close collaboration between the psychiatrist and the internist and surgeon, both before and after psychotherapy has begun...
...Chicago public library?where he spent his spare time while on a summer job inspecting telephone switchboards?McDonnell chanced upon an obscure book about psychic emanations: Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by English Essayist Frederic W. H. Myers. It turned his interest abidingly toward the occult. "I was fascinated with the idea that this realm of the mind and soul and survival after bodily death ought to be susceptible to investigation through a scientific approach," says McDonnell. Rebuffed by one of his Princeton professors when he asked for help in such an inquiry, the eager student attended...
...happened." He earned a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from M.I.T. ('25), enlisted in the Army Reserve to learn to fly. He remembers "singing hallelujahs as I did my first aerobatics in 1923, all alone, without the damn instructor in the rear cockpit." He also recalls "something like psychic ecstasy during my first parachute jump. The ecstasy ended when I landed in weeds and gravel and the open chute pulled me through them...
...Psychic Rewards. Mr. Mac draws a salary of $98,970 a year, and his personal 13% stockholding in his company (worth $90 million) earned him another $730,000 in dividends last year. But he is not impressed by the figures, only by what they reflect of the success of his lifelong plan. Says he: "I don't work for money any more, just for the psychic rewards...