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Since they are butting into this delicate situation uninvited, the K-School gurus say they do not want to pile added pressure on the challengers. They keep their research and results private, submitting ideas and observations without attracting much attention...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The IOP Prepares For the White House Changing of the Guard | 9/25/1980 | See Source »

...publication in 1970 of Human Sexual Inadequacy, by Dr. William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, was one of those events that transform the clinical landscape. Afterward sex therapy seemed a brave new world, and Masters and Johnson were its gurus. Already known for their significant findings about the physiological processes involved in sex, the pair devoted the book to the therapies they had developed at their St. Louis clinic for such problems as frigidity, impotence and premature ejaculation. Over a period of 16 years, they reported, they treated 790 cases, mostly involving married couples; in each case they conducted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Target: Masters and Johnson | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...liberal, backaches are the single largest cause of worker absenteeism. Americans, in their often fu tile quest for relief, now spend $5 billion a year for tests and treatment by a dizzying array of back specialists, including orthopedists, osteopaths, physical therapists and chiropractors, to say nothing of self-styled gurus who promote every man ner of cure. Billions more are paid out in disability claims, lawsuit awards and other settlements resulting from back injuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Aching Back! | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...biofeedback, meditation, dreams, psychiatry, etc., has ostensibly written a book not on religions or religions change, but about social and political transformations. However, these transformations are predicted on the so-called consciousness revolution, the inner changes produced by a decade of millions of altered awarenesses, self-actualizations, encounter sessions, gurus and shrinks...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: The Gospel of a Dawning Age? | 5/7/1980 | See Source »

...LAST OF THE FAITH'S TEN gurus, Guru Gobin Singh, created this khalsa or spiritual brotherhood and prescribed his devotees' dress just before he "left the world" in 1708. He followed a line of gurus dating back to the faith's founder, Guru Nanak, born in northern India in 1469. Nanak saw the hypocrisy of Islam, Hinduism, and the caste system, Mahan Singh says. He says Nanak hoped to turn the tide of the spiritual anarchy by imploring people to bow only before God and to link themselves to the guru. Today, although the faith's chief guru, Siri Singh...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Serenity Amid Chaos | 3/21/1980 | See Source »

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