3. Sort of a pregnant man implant.
Interestingly,
I found this website giving a history of psychosomatic medicine or illness. I found it doing a research of the authors mentioned by Jon Atack in his latest article at Tony O's blog:
http://tonyortega.org/2014/07/09/jo...ron-hubbard-turned-into-dianetics/#more-15655
Jon Atack:
"When Hubbard boasted of sneaking into the library at Oak Knoll Hospital to read the latest texts, the work of Grinker and Spiegel was likely available. Their first paper was published in 1943. A book followed in 1945 (Men Under Stress, first edition 1945, second revised edition 1963, McGraw Hill, NY)."
"by psychiatrists Roy Grinker and John Spiegel."
I was interested in reading that website I found, because it pinged my interest in psychosomatic illness which
Hubbard, of course, in Dianetics explains man's illness is psychosomatic, or thru the mind.
It's a good read, the website.
But, here's what's interesting, from:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/emotions/psychosomatic.html
"Groddeck's Book of the It--that helped inspire Freud's own concept of the "id"--claimed that all physical illnesses are produced by the unconscious mind."
So I found the book called "Book of
It" and read it today. It's just letters by Groddeck.
http://www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis/p109g/groddeck.html
"The most striking sign of pregnancy is the enlarged stomach. What do you think about my idea, expressed before, that an enlarged stomach betokens the appearance of pregnancy even in the case of a man? Indisputably he carries no child in his body. But his It creates the swollen stomach by means of eating, drinking, flatulency or whatnot, because it wishes to be pregnant, and accordingly believes itself to be so. There are symbolic pregnancies and symbolic births, which arise from the unconscious and persist for a longer or a shorter time, but disappear without fail when the unconscious stimuli of this symbolic expression are revealed"
Or as hubbard would say, dramatizing birth or being pregnant.
So I think it's funny you mentioned "
3. Sort of a pregnant man implant." LOL, not at you, but with you.
It's just how I connect dots.