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...extravert. Jung the religious healer believed the goal of psychiatry was to release and develop the divine within each individual. He broke with Freud by placing unsatisfied spiritual hungers rather than repressed sexuality at the center of personality disorders. Freudians could always counter that those pangs are just another symptom of stifled libido...
...many cases, family therapists argue, an outbreak of physical illness is both a symptom of high stress among family members and an attempt to cope with it. Minuchin says that anorexia nervosa victims are "saviors of the family" because they paper over parental conflicts that threaten to destroy the family. Psychiatrist Philip Guerin, director of the Center for Family Learning in New Rochelle, N.Y., finds that many fathers suffer heart attacks shortly after a grown son or daughter leaves home. His hypothesis: the child may have functioned as a buffer for parental conflict. Psychologist Dina Fleischer of Richmond...
Faculty, administrators and other promulgators of normalcy, all question the breadth of vision of the Buttfucks and their sympathizers. Sausalito just does not have that large a population of ex-Yalies. To normalists, the depravity theory is a symptom of youthful short-sightedness: things are not really so painful as they seem, and perhaps a little pain is a healthy, natural part of growing up. From their point of view you cannot argue with results--most products of the Yale environment turn out to be as vigorous, capable, diligent and even happy in their real-world occupations as they were...
Despite Ford's genuine desire to meet his countrymen, the extraordinary security measures that shrouded his trip showed how deeply his freedom had been at least temporarily restricted. One symptom of the new nervousness around the White House: the entourage of newspaper reporters jumped from the regular eight or ten to 26, including correspondents from four British and three Australian newspapers...
Harvard's willingness to cover for the Greek government is more mysterious. It may simply be a symptom of the ambivalence that has marked the administration's approach to modern Greek studies all along: The program was initiated from outside; it was designed at a slow pace; and according to President Horner, it has not even been discussed by the Faculty Council...