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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprisingly, the sleeping pills helped test subjects sleep longer right away. But the results were not really different, at least in the short term, from those provided by behavior therapy and the combined treatment. And when the researchers contacted their subjects two years later, only the behavior- therapy group had maintained its initial recovery. As soon as participants stopped taking sleeping pills, the sleepless nights returned...
Freud first used the term psychoanalysis in 1896, when he was already 40. He had been driven by ambition from his earliest days and encouraged by his doting parents to think highly of himself. Born in 1856 to an impecunious Jewish family in the Moravian hamlet of Freiberg (now Pribor in the Czech Republic), he moved with the rest of a rapidly increasing brood to Vienna. He was his mother's firstborn, her "golden Siggie." In recognition of his brilliance, his parents privileged him over his siblings by giving him a room to himself, to study in peace...
...quarrels. The two best known "defectors" were Alfred Adler and Carl Jung. Adler, a Viennese physician and socialist, developed his own psychology, which stressed the aggression with which those people lacking in some quality they desire--say, manliness--express their discontent by acting out. "Inferiority complex," a much abused term, is Adlerian. Freud did not regret losing Adler, but Jung was something else. Freud was aware that most of his acolytes were Jews, and he did not want to turn psychoanalysis into a "Jewish science." Jung, a Swiss from a pious Protestant background, struck Freud as his logical successor...
...hard to get back and realize that lots of friends were presidents of things, whereas I had cut off my commitments at the end of sophomore year," says Amy L. Beck `00, who worked at an internship in Paris during the fall term. "It was hard to see that I had in fact made sacrifices. I didn't feel particularly committed to anything...
...Spaniards have all heard of Harvard, and some say, `Oh, that's a really good school' or `You must be really smart,'" says Sarah H. Winkeller '00, who's spending the spring term studying at the Universidad de Sevilla...