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Occupational Therapy. In Buenos Aires, arrested for undertaking to cure liver ailments at $21.75 a treatment by having her patients dance the mambo, Healer Dona Pancha, 59, paused en route to jail to mix herself a magic potion of liquids, unguents and powders to ward off claustrophobia...
...same time, even the most enthusiastic advocates of the drugs were at pains to emphasize that by themselves the pills and injections probably do not cure anything; in the main, they make other treatments more effective. They are not going to empty the state hospitals, and far from reducing the need for more intensive research into psychic disorders, they accentuate it and facilitate the work...
...ivory-tower critics argue that the red-brick pragmatists are not getting to the patient's "underlying psychopathology" and so there can be no cure. These doctors want to know whether he withdrew from the world because of unconscious conflict over incestuous urges or stealing from his brother's piggy bank at the age of five. In the world of red bricks, this is like arguing about the number of angels on the point of a pin. Psychiatrists who have worked on the back wards readily admit that they can claim no technical cures-they will have...
...though the picture is perhaps a little rough on the medical profession, it should be a most effective and pleasant cure for hypochondria...
...convincing him that he is an old acquaintance. He gulls a sympathetic gentleman with a billion-dollar worldwide relief scheme ("Missions I would quicken with the Wall Street spirit"). Ever extolling the power of positive thinking, the confidence-man takes the form of an herb doctor with a cure-all called the Omni-Balsamic Reinvigorator ("Health is good, and nature cannot work...