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Your article on psychotherapy, which notes that the field is heterogeneous and often discordant, may deter people from seeking help when they need it. Heterogeneity and discord do not mean ineffectiveness. Psychotherapy is a unique interaction between each patient and therapist. Well-trained psychotherapists employ whatever is most useful to a particular patient at a particular time. There will always be new theories about the human mind and personality. There will never, I hope, be uniformity. Charles W. Casella, M.D. Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Stanford University School of Medicine Palo Alto, Calif...
...required not only from Britain and France but from China, the other known member of the "nuclear club" and a nation that has so far refused to join any nuclear negotiations. An even stickier problem is that the U.S. and its NATO allies depend on nuclear weapons to deter the Soviets from attacking or threatening Western Europe. The Warsaw Pact has a hefty superiority in ground troops and conventional weapons...
...President thinks that one life is not enough, we can offer thousands of lives." KALAWELGALA CHANDRALOKA, secretary of Sri Lanka's National Clerics Front, threatening widespread hunger strikes after one monk's near-death by fasting failed to deter Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga from a plan to distribute tsunami aid to Tamil Tiger rebels...
...intensive process, which Rao likened to applying to college, did not deter...
...Yukos, who became the country's wealthiest oligarch as state industries were privatized after the collapse of the Soviet Union; on charges including tax evasion and fraud; in Moscow. The conviction ended a long trial that critics claimed was part of a politically motivated campaign by the Kremlin to deter the billionaire from financing opposition to Vladimir Putin and discourage independent business. Khodorkovsky, whose now-dwindled fortune was once estimated at $15 billion, was sentenced to nine years in prison, which will remove him from the scene well past Russia's 2008 national election...