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...common element in most of the cures is group support. Explains Jim Bryan, director of therapy at Chit Chat Farms, a highly successful alcoholic treatment center west of Reading, Pa.. "We tell the patients it can be done, and you don't have to do it alone. The patients help each other get well." Half the staff-including Bryan himself-are recovered alcoholics, providing even more credence to the support they give to patients during Chit Chat's 28-day, $840 treatment. "We do not look into the whys of their drinking," says Bryan, "but how they...
...variant of the Lutheran General and Chit Chat models is the treatment center that combines group therapy and hypnotic suggestion with a behavioristic kind of aversion treatment: electric shocks or drugs to make the very odor of liquor abhorrent. At Seattle's Schick's Shadel Hospital, which offers an eleven-day, $1,500 program, each patient is taken to "Duffy's Tavern," a small room decorated with enough bottles of whisky to lubricate a regiment. The patient is given a nausea-inducing shot and then handed a glass of his favorite brand. He sniffs the aroma, takes...
...which had been dropped from the previous larger list, and the impression of conciliation lingered for a month as people waited for the final announcement. Among the 23, there were two obvious front-runners-Bok and Dunlop-and a third "outside candidate" (as media men put it when they chit-chatted over the latest.) The outside candidate was Donald Kennedy, professor of Biology at Stanford and member of the Board of Overseers, who had all of the requisite credentials, a small following among selected Overseers, but did not come from inside Harvard-a fact which, because Harvard rather provincially thinks...
Wars and other major calamities are not the only tests of the business office's adaptability. One of its tasks is the processing of expense accounts. Lucy remembers the writer on safari "who billed us for luggage eaten by a crocodile." The chit was honored, perhaps in recognition of the writer's creativity...
While collecting on his chit last week, Ky worked hard at disarming his critics and making an impression clearly pointed toward next year's South Vietnamese elections. Ky had breakfast with President Nixon, highlighted by "a little chat" about politics in South Viet Nam, then withdrew for a 90-minute discussion with Kissinger...