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...counselor's first goal is to coax newly awakened patients out of the cocoon of their former life. "They are like children at first," says Burnett. "Everything frightens them." Once their trust is gained, they must learn the most fundamental, practical facts about how to organize their life. In a group session, for instance, participants are asked to make a pie chart of a typical day. How big a slice does sleep get? Work? Television? Many schizophrenics are accustomed to sleeping 16 hours a day. To enforce normal habits, Burnett often uses peer pressure. When new arrivals realize that other...
...adds that it's important to "allow theother person to have a separate life outside therelationship. You can create a cocoon aroundyourself, and then you've missed...
...Howard, whose best work (Splash and Cocoon) has been fantastical, uses these devices unpretentiously. He's not a man who likes to force his effects. There are times when one wishes he did push his -- and our -- emotions just a little harder and wind the story's suspense just a little tighter. He needs, perhaps, to be a little less self-effacing as a director, especially with a film like this, which was inspired by his own ancestors' immigrant experiences and clearly means a great deal to him. On the other hand, a firm sense of human scale...
...honest, the final clubs, even in their elitist social cocoon, did appeal in some way. Parties. Beer. Abdicating all claims to social responsibility. Nevertheless, I avoided the final clubs. I turned down a friend's offer to punch me for the Phoenix...
...Buchanan has given up the protective cocoon of celebrity life, a world in which he traveled by Mercedes (so much for buying American) from his pillared mansion in McLean, Va., to the CNN studio where, as one staffer says, "he never actually had to come into contact with the bozos who think the way he does." He has taken up traveling by minivan, begging for donations, and bedding down at Holiday Inns. The speeches he used to give at about $10,000 a pop are being delivered free in overheated living rooms in New Hampshire...