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Nevertheless, the men and women who laid the foundations of "the talking cure," as an early analysand called it, had to think of themselves as neutral observers of clinical evidence. Software like the id, the ego and the Oedipus complex became hardware; schools of thought grew into academies of dogma; schisms appeared; colleagues turned into cultists; and Wilhelm Reich, confusing metaphor with reality, saw space invaders...
...these reasons alone, one would have to agree with Janet Malcolm, a staff writer for The New Yorker, that psychoanalysis is "the impossible profession." Her artful, illuminating survey of the field suggests an even stronger reason. After decades of popularizations and spinoffs, the talking cure appears to have trivialized the majesty of the unconscious. People once said that they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning that they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their autobiographies. Now, people "go for" psychotherapy as they would go for a haircut, a walk in the park or Chinese food...
...board recognized that continued high interest rates will be necessary, for a while at least, to curb inflation. Said Schultze: "We cannot cure inflation painlessly...
Although testicular cancer used to be regularly fatal, it is now often curable. Treatment may involve surgery, radiation and/or a combination of drugs, most notably cisplatin, which was first used experimentally only a decade ago. Even in severe cases, more than half the patients are cured. When the disease is detected early, the cure rate is nearly...
...received one favorable omen. During the first week of camp, everyone started and finished every workout--no trips to the training room, no be stings, not even a scraped knee. McCurdy likened this to a miracle, and maybe a few more weeks like this will be the perfect miracle cure for Boland's Bogtrotters...