Word: becking
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Yadav won an epic five-game match against Princeton sophomore Nathan Beck, coming back to take the last three games, 10-8, 10-9 and 9-1, after trailing...
...been inactive; never given up or given in. Al Hirschfeld had not only made it to 99, he seemed a cinch to hit 100. The Broadway establishment certainly thought so: it had set aside the day of his centenary, five months from now, for a ceremony renaming the Martin Beck Theater for him, with the guest of honor surely in attendance. (Who was Martin Beck? The man who built the Palace Theatre. And the Martin Beck...
Cognitive therapy is everything psychoanalysis isn't: simple, quick, practical, goal oriented. "There's this mystique about psychoanalysis," says Judith Beck, daughter of Aaron and herself a leading cognitive therapist. "Psychoanalysis is esoteric and creative and interesting, and the psychoanalyst holds himself up as the expert who interprets what the patient is saying and has all the answers. It's kind of the opposite in cognitive therapy." Cognitive therapists tend to follow the same basic script for each session, so the treatment is remarkably standardized. It's also remarkably effective; research shows that when it comes to treating depression, cognitive...
...telling that to an insurance company. Another reason cognitive therapy has been so successful--Judith Beck estimates that there are 5,000 cognitive therapists nationwide--is that it's the perfect therapy for the age of managed care: quick, cheap and backed by statistics. Classical Freudian psychoanalysis demands four or five sessions a week, and a session with a qualified psychoanalyst can easily run you $125, if not twice that amount. Few insurance companies will pay for a treatment that costs $30,000 a year and has hardly any clinical outcome studies to back it up. Insurers would rather...
...psychotherapy to a poor, eccentric cousin on the fringes of psychotherapeutic practice. "Classical analysis is a very, very small percentage of what is practiced in this country," says Dr. T. Byram Karasu, editor in chief of the American Journal of Psychotherapy. "It's almost a negligible fraction." Judith Beck believes psychoanalysis will die out in our lifetime. "Managed-care companies and insurance companies," she says, "are finally waking up and looking at research, and finding that it's not effective." Practically the only place patients actually lie down on couches anymore is in Woody Allen movies and New Yorker cartoons...