Word: kutz
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...extreme heat or cold, deprived of light or dark, made to squat in painful positions, questioned and fed at irregular intervals, kept awake for hours on end. Most important is confinement in isolation, divorced from all that is familiar. "Human beings want to control their environment," says Ilan Kutz, an Israeli psychiatrist who has treated former captives. "If you can't control it, you lose the coordinates of the self." This, of course, is the plan. It sets the stage for a good cop--bad cop strategy in which the captive comes to depend on the supposed ally...
Loners, who are used to having few emotional connections, take longer to crack; so do those with deep beliefs, who can find nobility in suffering. Whatever the background of a detainee, as soon as he capitulates, he is likely to tell all. Says Kutz: "The interrogators can say, 'You're ruined to everyone on the outside. You might as well tell everything and let us help you.'" --By Michele Orecklin
...Ilan Kutz is an Israeli psychiatrist and expert in the treatment of trauma. Sue Kutz is an American-born psychotherapist in private practice in Tel Aviv
Psychiatric social worker Sue Kutz agrees. She conducted a study of new mothers in Boston, expecting to find that moms who adjusted best were those in relationships in which husband and wife were well attuned to each other. She discovered to her surprise, though, that a better predictor was the number of nearby relatives the new mother could call on for assistance...
...seem an obvious point, but Kutz finds in her clinical practice that couples don't automatically think of turning to relatives for help. "Modern, high-functioning adults are accustomed to solving their problems on their own or with money. Often they aren't used to thinking of relatives as entwined in their emotional well-being...