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Last week a nervous, finger-twiddling German dermatologist, Dr. Eugene Traugott Bernstein, 45 (now exiled in Manhattan), published in International Clinics a synopsis of his little-known medical subspecialty: curing skin troubles which are of psychic origin...
Presidential press conferences are usually a bore. What happens is that a group of 100 or more reporters gather in the White House press room, stand around chatting with each other until thoroughly exhausted. Thus reduced to a state of total psychic subservience, they are ushered into Franklin Roosevelt's private sanctum. Here the President, comfortably tucked in under a massive desk and surrounded by a background of secretaries and Secret Service men, sits flourishing his cigaret holder. The correspondents gather closely around the front of the desk trying politely to look as though all this were a marvel...
...follow, I am quite unable to explain to myself why I draw a line one way and not another. It always seems to me compelling, as if it could not possibly be different-but I never know why. Let physiologists and psychologists explain the mechanical functions and the psychic impulses that originate art. I am merely an artist. I can draw, perhaps, but I cannot explain...
...hippocampus, connected with the mamillary body, is shaped like its namesake, the seahorse. The hippocampus builds up psychic emotion...
...Psychic emotion occurs when a man sits down and gets angry by thinking about wrongs done to him by an enemy. In psychic emotion, therefore, the emotional impulse is initiated within the brain-that is, by the cerebral cortex. The incitation passes to the hippocampus, where it is built up into an emotional process. This passes through the mamillary body, thence to the gyrus cinguli and so back to the cortex where the emotional experience is felt...