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...ugliest war. Casualty figures are unreliable, but each side claims to be killing its enemies at a rate of up to 100 a week. Other kinds of casualties may well run higher. "My husband was a farmer," says Mrs. Alayna Sosokan. "The soldiers told him to lie on his stomach, and then they shot him, along with four other men. Then the homes were burned." Army officers, for their part, tell gruesome tales of soldiers being mutilated by the guerrillas...
While the reservation plans were being approved, some of Crazy Horse's braves sold themselves to the cavalry as scouts in a war against another tribe. Unable to stomach his people's disloyalty, Crazy Horse decided to return to the Powder River country, which was unalloted Indian land...
...grandfather, he had big chest, small stomach," the craggy-faced Bad Cob said. "I have small chest, big stomach. Too much of the government's canned food...
Feeling, like all elements in Janov's picture of human behavior, involves not only mental awareness but the biological processes accompanying or underlying that awareness. Feeling is sensation plus a correct awareness of the origin of that sensation. Our stomachs may tighten if we need to cry. We feel that need if we are aware both of muscles tightening and of the act we need to perform. If a mother tells her son, "Big boys don't cry," for enough years, she may cause his psychophysiological system to block the connection between stomach-tightening and the need...
JANOV, TO improve his theory, must be much more explicit on the nature of needs. Needs which, if unfulfilled can cause neurosis, are communicated to the body by processes within the body. You need no one else to tell you if you have "butterflies in your stomach." But social needs are communicated only by socially created symbols. Therapy provides a return to the self; politics creates a restructuring of systems. The ideal society requires both, but it is foolish to think they are identical processes. Indeed, if a therapy makes the person more individualistic, if it isolates him from other...