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...most creative pioneers in the new method is Manhattan Psychoanalyst Milton M. Berger, who uses a combination of analytic and video techniques to treat individuals, couples and families. While conducting traditional therapy sessions, Berger operates two cameras equipped with zoom lenses designed to catch face, hand and body movements that often reveal more than the spoken word about personality and emotional problems. Patients can watch themselves on one or all of Berger's four TV monitors, or view reruns later...
Forced by video to "remove their blinders," as Berger puts it, many patients notice that their facial expressions can put people off. A TV scriptwriter being treated in both individual and group therapy watched a tape of herself made during a group session, then dissolved in tears. "What bothered me," she told Berger, "was this smug expression I have on my face-as if I know it all, and I really don't." In other cases, the camera may pick up a patient's hidden fears. One young woman reacted with a look of sheer terror when...
Video can be equally useful in pointing up the significance of silence. After a wife complained that her husband showed no reaction when she spoke to him, Berger replayed a tape made at a previous joint therapy session. In the rerun, the wife talked while her husband held his pipe in clenched fingers and tamped down the tobacco with a jabbing motion that in retrospect revealed a "squelched inner fury...
Residents of Sioux City, Iowa, were asked by Mayor Paul Berger to turn back their thermostats to 68° until the shortages end. Public schools in Denver, Wichita, Kans., and Nebraska City, Neb., were either shut down or put on short hours for want of anything to put in the furnaces. In Illinois dozens of grain-elevator operators have been unable to buy gas, leaving heaps of undried grain in danger of rotting. In New York City, American Airlines and TWA converted some nonstop transcontinental flights into interrupted runs so that the planes could fuel up along...
Injuries should not be a big problem for Harvard All Ivy end Mitch Berger went under the knife this week and adjuster Steve Golden will miss another game, but their replacements. Fred Smith and Bert Broyer, have both played very well. The offensive line is hurting a little. Guard Doug Crim will not play, and tackles Bill Ferry and Tim Manna have been bothered by minor injuries and sickness. When the Crimson asked Restic what he'd do if any more guards were hurt, he replied, "I'm going to come up to the press...