Word: stress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning Dr. Dock's theory anent stress imposed by sexual intercourse...
...pains were similar to hers-and she had a duodenal ulcer. Dr. Mohr found that the woman had not wanted the child; motherhood had made her give up a promising art career. He decided that her pains and her child's were both reactions to frustration and stress...
...illness or emotional stress in a pregnant woman damage the child? For the most part, doctors have tended to answer no, but now they are far less certain...
...retarded children, no fewer than 67 resulted from troubled pregnancies. In 24 cases, the mothers had clearly been ill-half of them suffering from toxemia. In 38 cases there had been marked emotional stress brought on by husband trouble, illness or death in the family, threat of eviction, or, in the case of two unwed women, being abandoned by the men they had expected to marry. There were nine cases of shock or accident. With some overlaps, such factors were found in 66% of the retarded children's backgrounds, but in only 30% of the normal children...
Psychiatrist Sargant sees these quick conversions under great emotional stress almost anywhere. He believes that every important conversion recorded in the New Testament (most notably that of Saul of Tarsus, persecutor of Christians, to Paul the Apostle) was of this type. In modern times, thinks Sargant, many conversions to and from Communism (e.g., Arthur Koestler's carefully recorded experiences) followed the pattern. So, too, did religious and pagan dedications among Voodooists in Haiti, among some tribes on the west coast of Africa, among the Quakers (says Sargant, because they "shook and trembled before the Lord"), among the lamas...