Word: schizoid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctors had followed like hawks the zigzag progress of 124 drunkards (100 male, 24 female) in McLean Hospital, Waverly, Mass. "A more variegated collection of personalities," they wrote, "would be difficult to assemble: some were sociable, some seclusive, some stubborn, some easily influenced, some cyclothymic [manic-depressive], some schizoid [ingrown] , some intelligent, some dull and so on, ad infinitum; the only trait these people seemed to have in common was addiction to the excessive use of alcohol." Why they drank, the doctors found it impossible to discover...
...theories have it that here he intends to write a new, great German philosophy or finish the sequel to Mein Kampf. To a psychoanalyst Hitler's shaft would be an obvious symbol of impotence; to psychiatrists the desire to be so completely alone would stamp him as a schizoid (split) personality. The ordinary schizoid who cannot build a lonely house occasionally withdraws into his own shell and refuses to speak or deal with other people. Perhaps more to the point is British Samuel Johnson's diagnosis of the craving for solitude...
...underwent a change of voice, manner, posture and her utterances made it appear that she was invaded by the spirit of a deceased Arab who called himself Uvani. Dr. Rhine was not much concerned with whether "Uvani" was in fact an Oriental ghost, or the alter ego of a Schizoid personality, or a simple hallucination. He wanted to know what Mrs. Garrett in her normal state and in her trance could do with his cards. Findings...
This Brill. Dr. Abraham Arden Brill's characterization of Abraham Lincoln as a schizoid-manic personality (TIME, June 15) must be painful to teachers who hold Lincoln as a model for their pupils. "But who is this Dr. Brill?* Teachers have never before heard of him. What do other psychiatrists say? . . . Teachers, before accepting his conclusions, would want to see an analysis of the doctor's own mentality." (James William Crabtree, secretary of the Association...
...Abraham Arden Brill of Manhattan, a Freud disciple, was scheduled to read a paper on "Abraham Lincoln as a Humorist." Lincoln, from what Dr. Brill has been able to learn out of Lincoln biographies, was a schizoidmanic. That appellation is not so horrendous as it seems in type. A schizoid is a "split personality." He has subtle conflicts among the psychic components of his personality. A manic is a moody person, one subject to fits of exaltation and depression. When a manic or a schizoid or any type of mental aberration annoys his neighbors, they call him crazy and have...