Word: psychically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cumming's story is a more ambitious attempt both in its stylistic devices and in its deeper search for his subject's psychic needs. Although Cummins shows some insight into the insecurity of a fatherless Negro boy, his experiments with style are not half so successful. In order to gain immediacy Cummins uses the present tense throughout his narration, a dangerous and difficult patli on which he slips occasionally, especially when attempting to introduce background information...
...Easy Out. Siding with the psychiatrists, the court reasoned: "As an exclusive criterion the right-wrong test is inadequate in that a) it does not take sufficient account of psychic realities and scientific knowledge, and b) it is based upon one symptom and so cannot validly be applied in all circumstances . . . The 'irresistible impulse' test is also inadequate, in that it gives no recognition to mental illnesses characterized by brooding and reflection ... A broader test should be adopted." The proposed test, already known as the "Durham Rule": a jury must decide 1) whether an accused was suffering from...
...drugs were at pains to emphasize that by themselves the pills and injections probably do not cure anything; in the main, they make other treatments more effective. They are not going to empty the state hospitals, and far from reducing the need for more intensive research into psychic disorders, they accentuate it and facilitate the work...
What drives the psychic machine? Libido, says Jung, but he uses the word differently from Freud: Jung's libido includes all psychic energy. It can flow, says Jung, in either of two directions, in either of two dimensions. When it is flowing forward, from the unconscious to the conscious, a man feels that life is running smoothly as he goes about his business. Psychic energy must also flow in reverse, from the conscious to the unconscious, as when a man relaxes from an active to a pensive or dreamy state. But if this backward flow lasts too long...
...Psychic energy may also flow inward or outward. If in an individual it usually goes outward, he is an extravert. When he perceives an object or situation, his first reaction is to project his energy onto the object and away from himself. But if it flows inward, he is an introvert, and his first reaction is along the lines of "What will this do to me?" Jung then breaks down personality types into four classes, depending on which of the major psychic functions they rely on most heavily: sensation, thinking, feeling or intuition. Since anybody can be either extraverted...