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...White House and the Pentagon, responding to his campaign last year to be allowed back on active duty, which, since he was 36, required a waiver. And there are pictures of his wife Anna and their sons D'Artagnan and 7-week-old Alexander, whose world he wants to fix. Beets thinks it's time to take the fight to America's enemies. He does not talk about his unit's imminent deployment to Kuwait as just another training exercise...
These women are the opposite of heroines; they are traitors to the organizations that employed them. What happened to working within the system to fix what's wrong? Their motives were totally self-serving. They went out and made a name for themselves. I'm sorry you chose to bring them into the spotlight. MYRA SHIELDS Bensalem...
With time still left on my 50 minutes, I asked the doctor if I'm too narcissistic. "Seems to me it's working for you pretty well," he said. "Don't fix what ain't broke." Finally, I posed my major self-improvement dilemma to him. "I think maybe I watch too much porn," I said, to which Dr. Phil replied, "Is it making you tired?" If being unable to stay awake is the definition of a problem, then perhaps I am actually not watching enough...
Whatever else may have changed, the intellectual adventure of psychoanalysis, the delving into the depths, is still part of the Freudian tradition, and that's not going to disappear. Psychoanalysis is based on the fundamental belief that we aren't just a collection of neurotransmitters to be fixed with a pill, or a set of cognitive skills to be coached back into shape like a slumping quarterback. To Freudians, the mind is a complex and mysterious thing, and symptoms like depression and anxiety are the language in which deep inner conflicts express themselves. "Now most psychiatrists have scorn for psychoanalysis...
Until then, it will mostly be up to patients to deny the lie that the disorder tells--that there's really nothing wrong with them--and make the therapeutic commitment necessary to fix things. "Nobody totally changes," says Josephs. "But anyone can become more flexible and resilient. Anyone can make progress." That alone is already a better prognosis than most patients have had. --With reporting by Sora Song/New York