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Mental Healer: QUILP, kwilp, Daniel, a malicious and hideous dwarf who figures prominently in Charles Dickens' novel, Old Curiosity Shop. He torments and abuses his wife Betsy, and when about to be arrested for a felony drowns himself.
QUIMBY, kwim'bi, Phineas Parkhurst,American mental healer: b. Lebanon, N.H., Feb. 16, 1802; d. Belfast, Me., Jan. 16, 1866. He was a clockmaker by trade, but in 1838 his interest in hypnotism was first awakened through the lectures and exhibitions of the French mesmerist Charles Poyen, then touring America.
Mass investigations on the basis of age norms, however, have indicated only a slight relation between the mental and physical status of children. A spurt in mental growth does not appear to parallel the preadolescent spurt in physical growth. The pattern of mental development is similar in boys and girls, despite the difference in their rates of physical maturing.
There is growing evidence that some of the serious mental disorders are in part biochemical, not illnesses of the mind as such. Watson (131, 1956) stated that the nutritional displacement caused by psychological stress is itself a contribution to the biochemical aspects of mental illness. |
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