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...reputation of Dutch-Moroccan rapper Raymzter is dented within minutes of meeting him. He shakes hands politely, is soft-spoken, and offers a cup of coffee. Reclining on a floral couch he displays none of the rebel attitude that makes his stage performances such a hit. Raymzter (pronounced rhymster) is the sort of rapper you could take home to meet the parents. In fact, it's the parents of Raymzter's Italian producer, Massimo Baudo, who open the door of the neat terraced house on a new housing estate outside Amsterdam, when a reporter arrives for a visit...
...also abandoned the formal reserve of the classic Freudian analyst. Freud believed the analyst should be as neutral and silent as possible. That way, Freud theorized, the patient can project personalities from his or her past onto the analyst and relive past conflicts right there on the couch. Freud called this process "transference." Beck and his followers aren't interested in transference. Instead cognitive therapists talk back to their patients, pointing out their misconceptions and advising them on how to see their lives more clearly...
...process is far more transparent today," says Sulkowicz. "An analyst may say, 'I'm choosing to remain silent to allow your thoughts to bubble up.' Analysts are much more up front. That never would have happened in Freud's day." Many analysts have even given up the beloved couch in favor of face-to-face conversation. "I don't know if that's gotten out to the general public," says Dr. Elio Frattaroli, a psychoanalyst who practices in Pennsylvania. "We made a lot of mistakes by being too much in our heads...
What makes serotonin such an important brain chemical is that it affects everybody, not only depressives. According to Dr. Jonathan Metzl, author of Prozac on the Couch, if you were to go on the drug today, there's a good chance that you would feel better, even if you aren't depressed. Dr. Peter Kramer, author of Listening to Prozac, describes the effect as feeling "better than well...
...sanity on an almost weekly basis. Self-diagnosis is a tricky business, especially when it comes to the mind. Still, with all the memoirs of addiction and depression and the countless websites devoted to mental health, it's more tempting than ever to lie down on the couch and ask, "Am I normal...