Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Child development studies stress the crucial importance of an early, nurturing and continuing relationship between a child and a mothering figure. To guard this continuity, the authors are willing to go far. In divorce cases, they suggest that two equally acceptable parents draw lots for custody...
...Severe Stress. In four cases reported in his book, Psychologic Clues in Forecasting Physical Illness, Dr. Silverman successfully predicted when, after severe, prolonged stress, illness would come and which part of the body would suffer. One successful prediction-of imminent respiratory disease-came after a patient said his girl friend's heavy smoking reminded him of his mother, who died of a chronic respiratory ailment. Another clue: he had dreamed of a nearly forgotten girl friend and casually mentioned chest pains he once suffered in an auto accident with...
...years," Dr. Silverman says, "we've been stuck on the question of whether illness is emotionally or physically caused. It's caused by the interaction, and the clues are psychological as well as physical." When a person develops "critical stress" and cannot cope, he says, either the mind or body has to break down. If physical illness strikes, "it doesn't do so randomly, but at vulnerable spots unique for each of us." That uniqueness will depend on which organs have been "sensitized" by heredity, childhood diseases or neurotic strategies like those the blind professor used...
...illnesses of many political leaders, Dr. Silverman believes, fit his theories: Lyndon Johnson's last heart attack, Robert Taft's terminal cancer, Joseph McCarthy's fatal liver ailment and Richard Nixon's phlebitis, all seem to him to have been triggered by the intense emotional stress of a traumatic event, though not enough is known about the "target organs" involved...
...example, the Times gave prominent play to a three-part series on South Vietnam by David K. Shipler. The series contained considerable information--most of it at least a year or two old--on the torture that is commonplace in the Saigon government's political prisons. Shipler laid great stress on the fact that many of those tortured are not communists, and in general the moral of the series appeared to be that the United States should suggest to General Thieu that he institute some prison reforms and some civil liberties, and maybe consider cutting...