1100 Words You Need to Know  Week 37 Day 4 1100 Words You Need to Know Week 37 Day 4 New Words erudite  –  phobia  –  germane  – vertigo – conducive Words in Context Amateur  Psychologists The ideas of Freudian  psychology  have become part of our  everyday life . Our language is  replete * with clichés* that have their origin in Freud’s writings. There is a  surfeit * of  amateur  psychologists who, with  celerity ,* analyze an individual’s problems from the slightest  evidence .  Despite  their  dubious * education and training in this field, they discuss symptoms and cures on a most  erudite  fashion. Should a person express a  fear of height , this  phobia is examined; events from childhood are considered  germane  to the problem. Is it  possible  he or she was dropped as an  infant ? Perhaps something in a dream is  pertinen...

1100 Words You Need to Know  Week 37 Day 3 1100 Words You Need to Know Week 37 Day 3 New Words  motivate – rationalize –  therapy  –  nascent  – iconoclast Words in Context The Mind’s Secrets The study of the  human mind  and behavior has had many  prominent  practitioners, but no one is more revered* than  Sigmund Freud . An Austrian  physician , he is said to be the father of  psychoanalysis . He taught that man has a  subconscious mind  in which he keeps  repugnant * memories that come to the surface surreptitiously* and motivate behavior. Man often tries to rationalize his actions, when,  in reality , they are really the result of suppressed memories coming to the surface. Freud’s  approach  to the disturbed person was to attempt  therapy  by examining the dreams that make  cognizant * what the cause of the illness might be. Only with the airing of  delet...