Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first confrontation of the Big Four foreign ministers since the Geneva summit of 1955, a total of 1,174 journalists cabled stories about the big fuss over the furniture. But the week's historic news turned out to be the new Western plan for Germany, first outlined fortnight ago in TIME'S May 11 issue. To bring the basic discussion of the issues up to date, see FOREIGN NEWS, Around the Doughnut Table...
...moved away from the position, no longer tenable after 14 years of peace, that the conquerors could still impose on Germany the shape of its future government. They gave the U.S.S.R. the chance to prove what it professed to desire. In their careful phrasing and attention to detail, the Western proposals showed a willingness to negotiate, not merely an eagerness to propagandize. Those whose trade it is to analyze documents could see in this one an impressive vision of a sensible European future, and that momentary glimpse of what Europe might become made Geneva seem less tawdry, even...
...obduracy and achieve an independent Austria; a similar process of exploration, cross-questioning and testing of intentions would be needed if mutual agreement, in stead of the caprice of history, is to settle the future of Germany and of European security. Anyone who took the trouble to study the Western position at Geneva would find it an honest attempt to reach agreement. That mysterious, ephemeral and debatable quality, the diplomatic initiative, was the West's once more. Khrushchev could talk resoundingly of seeking peaceful agreement - but how much did he really care...
...Cross-Cultural Study of Psychotherapy" is an attempt to determine whether certain elements of mental therapy exist universally in sample cultures. Fisher finds that such therapy, as a means of dealing with undesirable deviants from a culture's norms, does involve common elements in the deviant-therapist relationship. Western psychoanalysis, the Navaho "Singer" treatment and related ritualistic healings in the cultures of the Saulteaux, Yurok, and Guatemalan Indians have certain points in common. Especially significant are the common traits of curing through an emotional experience, with the assumption that the cause of the disturbance lies beyond the patient's conscious...
Fisher's article, which is part of a longer opus on the same subject, opens some interesting questions about universal human traits other than those mentioned in this particular paper. Choosing hypotheses from the example provided by the highly developed Western method of psychotherapy may distort the investigation from the outset. Fisher recognizes this danger, yet such working hypotheses do offer the advantage of exploiting thoroughly studied Western psychoanalysis as a model for comparison...