[Peace-discuss] Keywords 112818

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Trichobezoar.  Hair ball.  Found in stomachs of trichotillomaniacs.

On Nov 29, 2018, 8:55 PM, at 8:55 PM, Mildred O'brien via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>Dear Ron:
>When you've finished defining Keywords in your dictionary, I hope
>someone doesn't give you another one for Christmas.
>Midge
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> Keywords  112818
>A review of some terms useful in political analysis & polemics
>gaslightWhat does gaslight mean?We define gaslighting as “to attempt to
>make (someone) believe that he or she is going insane (as by subjecting
>that person to a series of experiences that have no rational
>explanation).”Where does gaslight come from?The modern sense of
>gaslighting comes fromGas Light, a play (1938) by British writer
>Patrick Hamilton, subsequently made into British and American films
>entitledGaslight (1940 and 1944), in which a man attempts to trick his
>wife into believing that she is going insane. Used as a verb and verbal
>noun,gaslighting has been in this figurative use since at least 1956.> 
>Also a recent vogue-word (— H.W. Fowler) or “hotword.”  ~ RSz. 
>psychotomimeticDefinition - of, relating to, involving, or inducing
>psychotic alteration of behavior and personalityThis word—frompsychotic
>and mimetic (meaning "imitative")—first appeared in the 1950s, as
>mind-altering drugs began catching on with the public. The word's
>unpleasant association with psychosis inspired Dr. Humphry Osmond to
>coin the synonymouspsychedelic. That shifted the emphasis to examining
>how the agent might help enlarge the vision or explore the mind.The
>manner by which LSD-25 produces its mental changes is obscure. The
>letters LSD stand for lysergic acid diethylamide. The 25 identifies it
>as the 25th compound in the series. The drug itself is loosely
>classified as “hallucinogenic” or “psychotomimetic.”— Joe Hyams, _The
>New York Herald Tribune, 8 Nov. 1959
>trichotillomaniaDefinition - an abnormal desire to pull out one's
>hairTrichotillomania comes from combining roots from New Latin (trich,
>meaning “hair,” andmania) and Greek (tillein, meaning “to pull,
>pluck”). The word appears to have come about at the suggestion of a
>French doctor at the end of the 19th century.Trichotillomania.—This
>name is proposed by M. Hallopeau for a condition described by him at
>the seance of the French Society of Dermatology and Syphilography … It
>is a morbid condition, consisting of exacerbations of pruriginous
>sensations in the hairy parts of the body, accompanied by a vesania,
>that leads the subjects to try to get relief by pulling out the hairs,
>hence the name given above.— American Journal of Insanity (Baltimore,
>MD), Jul. 1894By 1896 the word was already found defined in medical
>dictionaries, such as George M. Gould’sThe Student’s Medical Dictionary
>(“an uncontrollable impulse to pull out one’s hair”).
>— Merriam-Webster, online
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