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Some of Vaillant's most important, and controversial, conclusions about treating an alcoholic came as a surprise even to the author. Traditional psychiatric approaches may be helpful for treating accompanying symptoms, such as despair, paranoia or anxiety, he believes, but they are nearly useless in dealing with the underlying nature of alcoholism itself. In his book, he ruefully describes his own disillusionment with his profession's ability to cope with the disease. "I was working for the most exciting alcohol program in the world," he says. But the results at the clinic were no better than...
...explosion of economic despair in Brazil's most populous state (25 million) posed the first major challenge to Governor Andre Franco Montoro, who has been in office for barely a month. A member of the center-left Brazilian Democratic Movement, Montoro was swept into power last November in the first open elections to be held since the military took charge in 1964. Though Montoro used to decry the heavyhanded police tactics of Brazil's authoritarian federal government before his election, he found last week that he also had to call out military police when a surging crowd...
According to Psychiatrist Resnick's clinical studies of 430 users, compulsive cokeheads tend to be professionally successful. Yet beneath a bouncy, worldly facade, says Resnick, the typical abuser is a certifiable narcissist who has "an undeveloped sense of identity and a profound despair," and "an inability to express ... intense rage toward one or both parents." Rob, 26, a Connecticut native who has sold various drugs for a decade, including cocaine, has his own, hard-boiled theory of addicts. "They're the same kind of people who don't have self-control in other parts of their life," he says...
Rejected, Adams returns to Washington at the end of this volume in a state of suspension between futility and despair. On the eve of his 54th birthday, he has no idea that he has yet to write Education, the masterpiece on which his enduring fame will rest...
...with a student's presentation of "Fragments of Faith"--different images he recalls from his neighborhood in Dorchester, his experience at the Good Friday witness, and his reflections on the death of Martin Luther King Jr. The scenes he describes are highly personal, highly charged with-emotion, some evoking despair, some inspiring hope and faith. When he finishes there is a hushed silence. The practice of ending each meeting with a student presentation began on the first day of class, when a student asked if she could try a sermon out on the class which she had prepared for that...