Word: healed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bookstores, pop-psychology sections are filled with dozens of self-help survivor titles. By far the most controversial and best selling (more than 700,000 copies) of these books is The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis. In their 1988 publication, considered the bible of the recovered-memory movement, they include such dogma as "If you think you were abused and your life shows the symptoms, then you were," and "If you don't remember your abuse, you are not alone. Many women don't have memories . . . this doesn't mean they weren't abused." Like many...
Private psychiatric hospitals, which advertise in medical journals and airline magazines, are profiting as well. "We can help you remember and heal," promises one ad for ASCA Treatment Centers in Compton, California. "Remembering incest and childhood abuse is the first step to healing...
...characterized such disagreements, from patients or anyone else, as "resistance" and then asserted that instances of such resistance amounted to "actual evidence in favor of the correctness" of his assertions. For a long time, this psychoanalytic Catch-22 worked wonders: those who opposed the methods put forth to heal them and others could be banished, perhaps with a friendly handshake and a knowing smile, as nuts...
...Albee once said of the conclusion of Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf, "we must try to claw our way into compassion." The play begins and ends in darkness, and after the brutal glare of judgment intervening, it's an act of mercy to gesture towards a time to heal and recollect ourselves...
...true -- sunscreen does provide measurable protection from the harmful effects of the sun. An Australian study showed that people who use SPF 17 sunblock develop fewer precancerous lesions and are more likely to have existing lesions heal than people who used no sunscreen...