Word: cure
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...automatons; their feelings can be stirred in sessions every bit as much as are those of patients. Sometimes those emotions shift onto the client, a process called countertransference. When a woman counselor takes up with a male patient, the impulse is often a "fantasy that love will cure the patient," says psychiatrist Glen Gabbard of the Menninger Clinic, who points to the romance between the therapist played by Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte's character in The Prince of Tides. "The movie would have you believe that what was helpful to him was her love for him, not her professional...
...patients under the supervision of another psychiatrist. The plight of this respected therapist caught up in one of the great hazards of her profession has stirred sympathy within the Boston psychiatric community. "There is a strong tension within us that we should be able to heal, comfort and cure terribly troubled people -- particularly gifted, young people," says one therapist who is familiar with the case. "I am inclined to think this has all the hallmarks of a real tragedy of good intentions to cure and heal, and something went awry...
...mystic who never touches them; he merely waves his hands about. If a patient is in a remote location and cannot visit an expert in person, he merely mails a slip of paper with his name written on it, and the practitioner performs both the diagnosis and the cure -- an exotic hand-and-body dance designed to "re-establish the balance of yin and yang" -- from any distance away. Thousands of visitors pour into the Philippine Islands to have local sleight- of-hand artists apparently dip bare-handed into their body to remove cancerous tumors. They dip into their bank...
Many of James' songs could be interpreted as a call to life. They sing of vulnerability and pain, but unlike so many moanings of the Cure and The Smiths, they also emphasize humanity's strength and capacity for change. "Climb out of your well/ It's not so deep/ Price of living life is not steep,' they exhort in "Protect...
...monuments will increase. But Narasimhaiah of the Indian archaeology team has some advice for scientists interested in restoration: "You have to love your monument. It should be like the relationship between a doctor and a patient. If a doctor doesn't have faith in his patient, he will never cure him." And if nothing else, the monuments of Angkor inspire a great deal of love and a faith in their ability to survive...