Sullivan has a keen sensitivity to the needs, expectations, and anxieties of the patient, and this is used by him to explore the whole field of interpersonal relationships, and to enable the patient to develop his more healthy features. There is no coercion, and the interpersonal relationships, between Sullivan and his patients are rather like those of a good gardener and his plants. The garden...

This communication owes its inspiration to the repeated anxieties which the author has felt when trying to elucidate the nature of bony swellings. The problem seemed almost insoluble in the case of femoral sarcoma now reported. It recurs frequently among the cases cited as illustrations of the differential diagnosis. In the handling of this every-day difficulty the patient's good and the reputa...

For roughly forty years, from 1870 to 1910, Americans recognized and feared gases emanating from sewers, believing that they were responsible for causing an array of diseases. Fears of sewer gas arose from deeper anxieties toward contact with decomposing organic matter and the vapors emitted from such refuse. These anxieties were exacerbated by the construction of sewers across the country duri...

Diary writing may seem a simple self-help tool, requiring only pen, paper and time. However, the unwary diarist may become entrapped in self-defeating thoughts and anxieties, and be swept out in a rip-tide of self-sabotage and self-doubt. Regimented lists of rules that focus on calories, exercise and weight may ease anxiety momentarily, but also disconnect body from self. The distancing effect ...

David Law and Mila Versteeg have used their considerable legal and empirical skills to identify what they provocatively describe as the “declining influence of the U.S. Constitution,” or of what they sometimes call “American constitutionalism.”1 This claim has been headline-grabbing in important part because of the larger sociolegal context, in which the question of American hegemony in the wor...