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Cognitive therapy is one of the most virulently anti-Freudian strains of post-Freudian therapy, and it has become one of the dominant approaches to therapy today. It was pioneered in the early 1960s by the psychiatrist Aaron Beck, who was trained as a Freudian but--in classic Oedipal fashion--rebelled against his master. Beck dismissed Freud's ideas about the subconscious as so much scientifically unverifiable cigar smoke. In their place he crafted a quick, pragmatic therapeutic approach that dispensed with abstract theories and focused on results. Cognitive therapy attacks such symptoms as anxiety and depression by "coaching" patients...
...dispute over the shape of the E.U.'s institutions, the initiative only begins to address the Union's biggest problem: the abiding impression among Europeans that the E.U. is all brains and no heart, an entity only a bureaucrat could love. The Chirac-Schröder agreement is a classic E.U. fudge. Instead of sharpening competencies, they are creating new potential overlaps. The dual presidency could all too easily end up being a duel, with the two executives at permanent war. And the deal reflects the kind of "something for everyone" compromise that gives the Union a bad name...
When the school received extra money for playing fields last summer, it decided to try an artificial turf, even though it would cost more than $700,000. The new surface is not classic AstroTurf, which many players consider hard and abrasive, but a softer, shaggier material called FieldTurf, made of sand, recycled rubber sneakers and blades of grass fashioned from synthetic fiber. Pleased with the feel and durability of its new field, Claremont High this season was host to its first home football games in a half-century...
...details of Reston's rise within the Times, from his arrival as a raw reporter at age 29 to his takeover of the Washington bureau 15 years later, will intrigue any fan of bureaucratic politics. Stacks makes clear that Reston used every ploy of the classic man on the make. He sought and flattered professional patrons. He was useful and devoted to the Sulzberger family, which owned the Times--and to Katharine Graham, who kept trying to lure him to the Washington Post. He made pre-emptive strikes against in-house rivals. He lost only one major battle inside...
Sellars, who was born in Pittsburgh in 1957, is world-famous for staging bizarre twists on classic drama. With his short frame dressed in bright colors and elaborate accessories, Sellars speaks slowly and never breaks eye contact. He smiles frequently from beneath a shock of brown hair that resembles Astroturf...