Word: trauma
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...front of him skidded out of control, and his body braced for the expected crash. Happily it did not occur, and the Salk Institute biochemists he was meeting were soon telling him exactly how his neurotransmitters and other internal defenses had geared up for the anticipated trauma...
...Rosalynn Carter visited the Middle East in March, a reported 36 agents went along on the 19-day trip. Robert Powis, an official at the Treasury Department, which oversees the Secret Service, insists that the expensive protection for former White House residents is small compared with the national trauma that might result from a kidnaping or assassination...
...major remaining question about them. "One person may have an ecstatic experience with a psychoactive substance whereas another person may have a "bummer". Why? The answer is that the person who is having the "bummer" is dumping repressed traumatic material from childhood or infancy, or even the birth trauma. The "bummer" is not in the drug it is in the person taking the drug; In microdosages," he emphasized, "cannabis will surface repressed material; it functions like a kind of neurological laxative...That may give us a clue as to how psychiatry can move into the twentieth century...
...WHAT about this $4.2 million? The Ferrises will suddenly become a very rich family, even after the lawyer's fees, taxes and the hospital expenses they have no doubt already incurred have been settled. The remaining money does nothing to help their daughter, or heal the trauma they have gone through in the last two years...
...this is that Mead's only source was what the teenage girls she was studying told her, and they probably exaggerated and lied to her both to tease her and out of shyness. Freeman also concludes that Mead was mistaken in believing that adolesence in Samoa is without trauma. He cites statistics showing that teenage delinquency in Samoa can run as much as ten times that of some western cultures, the peak year for a youth's first conviction being at 16 years...