Word: insight
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...children should remain. Vlasta reported her brother's reaction: "Yippee! Hooray! We're going to stay." The judge denied that his decision was politically motivated and declared that the mother is "intelligent and probably sensitive." Claiming what to skeptical observers seemed like an extraordinary degree of psychological insight, he added: "My observations in the past six weeks just confirmed what apparently she is; she finds it difficult to express warmth and feeling. I'm sure she's got them -maybe it's the nature of living in a Communist society or her own nature...
...women's rights, or to the drug culture--bookstores are deluged with mountains of publications which arouse intense, but momentary interest before the next big issue arises. Obviously, America suffers from such flightiness. All these areas deserve the ongoing attention of people interested in change, and reformers with insight and ability to add to their sincerity find their real efforts toward improvement reduced to mere fads...
...nine-to-five job, or a reform school. They decided that they had a right to be happy. Nothing Left to Lose and the counselling program it describes, are structure around a similar declaration of right. It is a fine book, and a very honest one--full of insight, generosity, and a belief in the possibility of reconciliation...
...technique seems to be effective in both individual and group treatment, probably because serious poems usually touch on deep, universal emotions. According to Yale Psychiatrist Albert Rothenberg, a patient who suddenly deciphers the message of a great poet may experience a flash of understanding similar to the dramatic insight that can come to patients in ordinary psychotherapy. By writing an original poem, an inhibited, repressed person may tell his doctor much that was previously secret. Poetry, says Rothenberg, "is even more revelatory than dreams...
...less consequential; attempts to reawaken the old are simply unsuccessful. "Give a Damn," a "talking song" on Paul and was a theme song for the Urban Coalition. It evokes, above all, a sense of deja vu. Its point is that arm-chair liberals are hypocrites--not an especially novel insight...