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...companion, an Air Force psycholo gist named Sheldon Freud ("a very dis tant cousin of Sigmund - fifth or sixth"), answered promptly: "Sit down and we'll order coffee." While they sipped their coffee at Doney's, the first man checked the dial on a small instrument hooked to his belt. He was noting his temperature. There was a wire leading from the gauge down his trousers to a rectal thermometer...
Little Hans. How does a man become anxious to the point of phobia or compulsion? After decades of debate psycholo gists and psychiatrists are at last substantially agreed that anxiety arises from feelings of helplessness.* According to the best modern thinking, Freud never fully understood the essential nature of anxiety. His first theory, propounded in 1894, was that repressed libido (sexual energy) becomes anxiety, which later reappears as free-floating anxiety or a symptom (phobia or compulsion) that is equivalent to it. This, as critics pointed out, was a theory of mechanism and not an explanation of causes...
Composers, athletes, billiard champions, authors, male cinema stars, philosophers, explorers, painters, scientists all achieve their top performances in their early thirties. This discouraging news for ambitious oldsters of 40 was reported by Psycholo gist Harvey C. Lehman of Ohio University in the current Scientific Monthly...
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