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...uncover the source of symbolic behavior, to determine the source of unresolved tension within each patient. One source of tension may be the kind of parental deprivation I've described; another may be unavoidable deprivation, brought about perhaps by the prolonged illness of a parent. The purpose of the cure is to enable the patient to experience the suppressed pain resulting from his inability to evoke love, the voluntary attempt by another to fulfill his needs. As pain is re-lived the patient feels formerly repressed connections between sensations, the causes of sensations, and the incidents responsible for disconnecting...
...physical convulsions as muscles loosen after a lifetime of tension and resistence. The physical reaction--the all-out cry for fulfillment--is the Primal Scream. It is a reconnection of mind and body, and physical changes--in voice pitch, height, breast size, and so on--often accompany the cure and are specifically connected with each patient's neurosis...
...people realize, Wald said, that there are two different kinds of acupuncture procedures--acupuncture "therapy," the cure-all procedure practiced in China for thousands of years, and acupuncture "analgesia," a newly-developed technique for eliminating pain. Both procedures involve inserting and twirling needles in the skin, he said...
...approximately 44 out-patient clinics were established in various cities to administer opiates to addicts otherwise unable to obtain their drugs legally. Most of these clinics were understaffed and had little direction and purpose and even less knowledge. The persons in charge were usually uninterested in trying to cure any addictions and apparently decided very quickly that it was easier to give an addict a week's supply of his drug than to see him every...
Heroin maintenance programs will not cure drug addiction, but there is every reason to believe that they will result in smaller increments, if not decrements, in the prevalence of heroin addiction, and greatly reduce the crime associated with it. Good maintenance programs with first-rate treatment and rehabilitative capacities would be less expensive in human and financial terms than the present largely punitive approach. The difference in money and energy could more sensibly be spent for research on the root social and psychological causes of addiction, with an aim toward the ultimate goal of prevention...