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conversion. Not to be confused with the religious term. A symptom of mental sickness: an unfulfilled, unconscious desire causes a bodily ache, pain, etc. (e.g., an upset stomach because of a disappointment in love...
Psychiatry recognizes two main types of mental illness, although there is no sharp distinction between them. The man who wanders so far from reality that he lives in a daydream is a psychotic, suffering from, a psychosis (psychiatrists consider "insanity" an oldfashioned, legal term, without medical meaning). The man who cannot be happy with his environment or himself - who suffers from his own slanted view of the world - is suffering from a psychoneurosis (neurosis for short). A psychotic is much sicker; but both psychotics and neurotics can be cured...
Oedipus complex. Freud's term for a male's feeling-started in babyhood -of rivalry with his father, and excessive attachment to his mother. (Oedipus was the Greek hero who unknowingly murdered his father and married his mother...
Council spokesmen announced last night that $400 to $500 of this amount will be available to students in time for payment of the term bill due December 10. Stipends range from $25 to $50 each...
Both Agassiz Theater and Agassiz living room will be thrown open Wednesday noon for the first all-college meeting of the term. Overflow crowds will be seated in the living room...