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...looks so promising that the hospital is now giving the special treatment to 200 patients, and other VA hospitals have adopted the treatment. One of the wrinkles added by the Bedford (Mass.) Hospital: a three-paneled mirror. It helps patients who slump along with bent head and shoulders to straighten up, look the world in the face...
...weeks, tension mounted and rumors grew. Venezuelans began to pray that handsome, tuberculous Lieut. Colonel Mario Vargas would return from his Saranac Lake, N.Y. sickbed. The army liked Vargas. He was also a close friend of both Gallegos and Betancourt. Vargas, people said, would straighten things...
...quick glance at de Gaulle, and figured that he is the leader France must have in order to escape chaos and Communism. They minimize his authoritarian tendencies. The socialist center groups have failed, the argument goes, and it is high time the General came to power. He will straighten out the economy, make the most efficient use of Marshall Plan aid, and run the Reds into a back corner...
...General James A. Van Fleet and Greek Premier Themistocles Sophoulis (who wore dark glasses despite the day's grey overcast). The Premier remarked that Greece's fate rested in George Marshall's strong hands. He might have added that these hands were, as usual, expected to straighten out a sad mess...
...Does It Work? How does a psychiatrist straighten out the conflicts? Freud, after finding hypnotism inadequate, devised the most sneered-at tool in all psychiatry: the couch. The couch is supposed to make the patient relax. The analyst places his chair at the head of the couch, where he is unseen by the patient. The idea is to get the patient to put all his thoughts and feelings into words. Such "free association" is the essence of psychoanalysis...