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idrang
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 Posted - 05/20/2012 : 20:50:55
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I have a list of almost a thousand key words in MHTWT that boil down when you lump together all the various forms (like symptom, symptomatic, symptoms) to abotu 280 words.
If you want to know where certain things appear in the book reply to this with your request and I will report back to you.
Example: Life's principal business is, therefore, to reduce both symptoms and temper to a minimum.
Key words, "symptoms", "temper"
MH Ch 0 p 27, pgph 1: Whether it be of the angry or fearful description, temper reinforces and intensifies the symptom which, in its turn, increases the temperamental reaction.
MH Ch 0 p 27, pgph 1: In this manner, a vicious cycle is established between temper and symptom.
MH Ch 0 p 29, pgph 1: To this end, a system of "spotting techniques" was evolved by means of which the members learn to reject the suggestions of the symptomatic idiom and temperamental lingo whenever a symptom or a temperamental reaction occur.
MH Ch 1 p 39, pgph 1: But the moment the physician arrived, his mere presence or calm manner dispelled frequently both symptom and temper in a trice.
MH Ch 1 p 42, pgph 3: And if you ask how you can manage to route your preoccupations, my answer will be of the simplest kind: stop listening to the threat of the symptomatic idiom and the imbecilities of the temperamental lingo, and your imagination will again be able to indulge in its stimulating occupations, and you will be in a position to make decisions, draw conclusions, formulate plans without fearing the dreadful consequences suggested to you by temper and symptom.
MH Ch 2 p 46, pgph 2: Today we still indulge our tempers, but the occasions are few, the aftereffect is short, and symptoms and suffering are transient and mild.
MH Ch 2 p 50, pgph 2: If you tell them that their unbridled tempers will upset health and disturb peace, their verbal or mental reply is: "I shall rather disturb peace and lose health than give up temper."
MH Ch 3 p 54, pgph 1: Then I would get this tightening in my throat or a pressure in my head, and my temper would rise, and the symptoms would get more severe.
MH Ch 5 p 79, pgph 2: What interests me is their philosophy with regard to symptoms and temper.
MH Ch 5 p 79, pgph 2: The fact is that my patients, prior to receiving training in Recovery, have been stubbornly romantic about their symptoms and emphatically intellectual about their temper.
MH Ch 12 p 140, pgph 1: Nervous symptoms are the result of tenseness, and if you "spot them as distressing but not dangerous," you dismiss the idea of danger; and without the thought of danger in your brain, you feel safe; and if you feel safe, you relax; and if you relax, you lose your tenseness; and with tenseness gone, the symptom disappears.
MH Ch 15 p 156, pgph 1: Mona then added that since she joined Recovery, she has had similar experiences, but she spotted both symptoms and temper immediately, and when she felt like telling the story to "everybody who would listen," she commanded her speech muscles not to move.
MH Ch 15 p 157, pgph 1: The story it would tell is that of temper producing symptoms and disturbing adjustment.
MH Ch 18 p 179, pgph 2: True, these emotions (read: tempers) may also be troublesome; they may cause tenseness, maladjustment and symptoms.
MH Ch 18 p 179, pgph 3: What interests me at this point is the deplorable fact that my patients have been exposed to the sinister influence of this modern dogma of the identity of temper and feeling and have been reached by the insidious propaganda, carried on by textbooks, by the stage and the press, to the effect that ungoverned emotions (read: aggressive tempers) can be cured by the expedient of "free expression."
MH Ch 24 p 212, pgph 2: If my patients could be induced to adopt it energetically and wholeheartedly, temper, restlessness, tenseness and Self-disgust would be reduced to average levels, and symptoms would not develop into panics and vicious cycles.
MH Ch 25 p 216, pgph 2: They are likely to be disturbed through destructive forces arising in inner environment (symptoms and temper) or from commotions and convulsions affecting outer environment (strife and dissension between persons and groups).
MH Ch 25 p 217, pgph 1: Since strife and dissension usually are the result of temper, we may safely assume that the peace of persons, families or communities is threatened by two elements mainly: symptoms which interfere with inner peace, and temper which obstructs both inner and outer peace.
MH Ch 25 p 217, pgph 1: The factors which endanger peace are symptoms and temper.
MH Ch 25 p 217, pgph 1: Life's principal business is, therefore, to reduce both symptoms and temper to a minimum.
MH Ch 25 p 219, pgph 4: As you know, it is temper primarily which creates and maintains tenseness, and it is tenseness which creates and maintains nervous symptoms.
MH Ch 39 p 312, pgph 1: If a patient develops a spell of choking and dizziness immediately following a heated squabble, it is hardly necessary to remind him that his symptoms are the result of his temper.
MH Ch 39 p 312, pgph 1: The precise meaning of both temper and symptom reveals itself to anybody's native and untutored intelligence and calls for no detailed instruction.
MH Ch 39 p 313, pgph 1: Since the "working-up" process follows the symptom, it properly goes by the name of post-symptomatic temper.
MH Ch 46 p 382, pgph 1: You may be inclined to doubt whether a method which works well with temper will also be effective with symptoms.
MH Ch 46 p 382, pgph 1: Well, if you have read my books, you will know that temper, exactly like symptoms, is initiated by an irritation or annoyance, that is, by sensations.
MH Ch 46 p 382, pgph 1: You see here that in temper, as in symptoms, a thought is always linked to a sensation.
MH Ch 46 p 383, pgph 2: It seems to me that if the one symptom has been exposed as a liar, the other symptoms can no longer escape the same kind of exposure.
MH Ch 47 p 386, pgph 4: Eliminate your temper, and you will do away with your symptoms.
MH Ch 47 p 388, pgph 5: Both temper and symptom run their course, and you cannot stop them by an effort of the will as you can do with thoughts and muscular action.
MH Ch 47 p 388, pgph 5: And if you say that temper and symptoms run on of their own momentum, that means that once they are set going, they continue on, rising and falling passively, without any possibility of arresting their progress until they exhaust themselves.
MH Ch 47 p 389, pgph 2: Muscles and thoughts can be manipulated actively and, for this reason, are called the active reactions in contradistinction to the passive responses of temper and symptoms.
MH Ch 47 p 390, pgph 2: Once these active reactions are set off, the passive responses of temper and symptom follow promptly in their wake.
MH Ch 47 p 390, pgph 2: When you arrive at the shop in the morning, you are already primed for the responses of temper and symptom because you failed to practice control of thought and speech reactions the evening before.
MH Ch 47 p 390, pgph 2: If you wish to get rid of your belching, you will have to realize that the place to practice temper control is at home and not in the shop, and that the elements which have to be controlled are the active reactions of thought and
muscles, not the passive responses of explosion and symptom.
MH Ch 48 p 398, pgph 1: The only thing that will make you bend all your energies toward conquering your temper is the realization that you cannot get well unless your temper is prevented from creating emotional upheavals in your body and producing an incessant train of symptoms.
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Kathleen
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Posted - 05/23/2012 : 19:34:32
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| Here's one: Motivation |
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idrang
520 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2012 : 21:45:44
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Only one reference to motivation:
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
Sabotage Method No. 1
Literalness
The concept of sabotage is basic to the philosophy of Recovery. The nervous patient sabotages his own health, his social adjustment, his efficiency and equilibrium and-most pernicious form of sabotage-the physician's authority. The trouble is that the patient, engaged in a systematic effort of obstruction, plies his trade in such a subtle and almost underhanded manner, that he is not aware of his own plottings and machinations. In former days, the author believed that the patient weaves his obstructionist plots from the depths of subconscious motivations. This absolved him of all suspicion of deliberate conspiracy. Gradually, however it became increasingly obvious that a good deal of conscious contrivance was at work.
In former days, the author believed that the patient weaves his obstructionist plots from the depths of subconscious motivations.
Motive is close:
Page 56
TEMPER, SOVEREIGNTY AND FELLOWSHIP
PHYSICIAN'S COMMENT ON A PANEL DISCUSSION
A letter was to be mailed and, as a result, an ugly street scene developed, and a family group took their evening meal in the dead silence of a sullen mood. Tears were shed and feelings were crushed. And all the commotion, confusion and agony were caused by a letter to be mailed. But a letter is a sheet of paper and, as such, utterly incapable of rousing tempers and offending feelings. No issue was involved. The contents of the letter were not challenged; the propriety, wisdom, advisability of its being mailed were not questioned. It was simply a fight about nothing, a struggle for a scrap of paper, a fight without an issue, a fight for the sake of fighting. How is it that men and women of mature age engage in fights "for nothing?" Obviously, mature years do not necessarily mean mature thinking or adult acting.
A fight is centered around an object and rooted in a motive. In the case of Frank and his mother, the object was the letter. What was the motive? A motive is a force that makes muscles move. Suppose the letter which the lady wanted to mail was addressed to a friend. Then the thought of the friend, the desire to communicate with her, the intention to please her supplied the motive that made Frank's mother walk into the street and move toward the mailbox. If Frank and his wife, Harriette, had not entered upon the scene, the letter would have been mailed without ado, and we would have no difficulty understanding the object of the walk, its motive and its successful execution. We would say that an act of behavior was manipulated correctly, or that its purpose aimed correctly at its proper goal. After Frank and Harriette made their appearance, the muscles of the letter-carrying lady suddenly deviated from the goal of the mailbox, the purpose of mailing was forgotten or neglected, and aiming was directed toward something that had essentially nothing to do with the original purpose. A new purpose intervened, changed the goal and redirected the aiming.
The original purpose was to communicate with another person, to give pleasure, to show consideration. The motive here was service. And service serves the end of peace; it creates good will and promotes the welfare of the group. This motive of service and group welfare was suddenly shelved after the arrival of Frank. A fight ensued, and its motive was hostility, competition, domination. What prompted that change in attitude? What is it that makes a person abruptly shift from a disposition to serve to a disposition to dominate?
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When Frank met his mother, he offered to mail the letter. Behind this offer was a desire or determination to be helpful or courteous or considerate. The act expressed the motive of service, that is, the spirit of fellowship. Frank has frequently stated in panel discussions that he and his mother do not get along well together. They live in a more or less continuous temperamental deadlock, in an atmosphere of strife, spite and bitterness. You may conclude, therefore, that Frank's offer was a polite gesture rather than a genuine eagerness to be of help. But in group life, an insincere gesture of generosity and fellowship is far more valuable than an outspoken expression of enmity and a brutal assertion of one's sovereignty. |
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Kathleen
1374 Posts |
Posted - 05/26/2012 : 23:34:29
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| Scrupulosity, what about this word? |
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idrang
520 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2012 : 02:29:49
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No hits. The closest is on page 48
A claim ought to be verified. An opinion ought to be tested, proved and substantiated. That calls for a judge. Who is to be the judge in matters of temper? And even if there were a judge, all he could do would be to hand down an opinion. His opinion may be final; it may compose and terminate the fight. But it would be nothing more than an opinion rendered by a duly constituted court instead of by the contending parties. True enough, the judge's opinion is supposed to be impartial, unbiased, based on evidence, testimony, records and documents. But no matter how heavily documented and how scrupulously unbiased the court decision may be, nevertheless, it is and remains an opinion.
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what key words do you want to find in MHTWT?
