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...fact, it is Sarah's desertion which provides the cure to Macon's existential homesickness. By the time she comes back desiring her old security and admitting that "some things are worse than boring," it is too late. Having been thrust into unfamiliar territory, Macon has been forced to confront his own restlessness. Sitting in a hotel room, the world-weary traveller idly muses on the idea of calling his next book "The Accidental Tourist At Home." At one point, in lonely desperation, he considers faking a coronary just to feel the soothing touch of a human hand. Tyler...
Everyone knows that a good deal of psychotherapy does not seem to go well. What everyone does not know, says Psychoanalyst Robert Langs, is that a common factor in failed therapies is the "madness" of the therapists. Skewed treatments, he writes in a new book titled Madness and Cure (Newconcept Press; $36), can bring some measure of relief to the disturbed and often seem to effect a cure, but they can also end in "incalculable harm" to patients...
...good news is that patients, on an unconscious level, often tend to be aware of the erratic behavior of those who are treating them. "Mostly what happens is that patients perceive the madness of their therapists and try to correct it," Langs says. "Unconscious attempts by patients to cure the errant therapist are quite common...
...years behind schedule and roughly $1 billion over its original $324 million budget. The 200 CUP employees and their families in Duchesne live in federal trailer camps and therefore pay no local property taxes. In lieu of tax payments, federal and local officials hit on a way to cure the Duchesne doldrums: Uncle Sam could build a bowling alley...
...have tiptoed around. "The publishers will publish the books we want if we are clear about what we want," says Honig. As the textbook makers considered ways to meet these sterner standards, there was a growing sense among educators that the demands of the big spenders might start to cure the affliction of simplistic books in U.S. classrooms...