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...close-minded." However, Freudian analysis, unlike Pavlov's behaviorist ideas, has never taken hold in the Soviet Union, although the Georgian Academy of Sciences recently sponsored a symposium on the concept of the unconscious. In the U.S.S.R., talk therapy or "rational psychotherapy," is mostly a series of admonishing lectures. The doctor listens to the patient, then tells him how he ought to behave. If the complaint is deemed too trivial-anxiety, or mild depression-a patient may be told not to come back at all. Hypnosis is often used by doctors to encourage healthier behavior, like trying...
...process. Says Associate Editor Burton Pines, the Nation section's expert on military affairs and principal author of the story: "It was a natural. The issue was very important, potentially explosive, but not susceptible of a quick fix. It was clear it would lend itself to a symposium treatment." TIME assembled five experts on military manpower problems, who joined 19 TIME staffers for a 5½-hour seminar in the Time-Life Building in New York City. The results not only inevitably helped shape this week's cover story but produced an edited transcript of the discussion that...
...manpower symposium is one of four such intellectual forays TIME has sponsored so far this year. In January, prepping for the campaign year, the Nation section traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with members of Congress, political advisers, party professionals and pollsters.In March editorial staff members convened with experts on Soviet-American relations to assess the present parlous state of affairs between the superpowers. Last month TIME Reporter-Researcher Barbara Dolan organized a one-day colloquy on the plight of American families. Twelve outsiders, knowledgeable on 'such problems as child abuse, domestic relations and aging, joined 22 people from...
...idea for the report originated at an energy symposium held last March at the Kennedy School. The participants included Yergin, Thomas C. Schelling, Littauer Professor of Political Economy, as well as representatives of oil companies and the federal government...
After the symposium "most of us who worked on the report felt that gas rationing was the solution," Chandler said, adding that the ensuing research determined that rationing would be bureaucratically impossible...