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...Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Hypochondriasas,” is one of the first aimed at curbing hypochondria, though the illness itself has existed for 2,000 years, said HMS Clinical Professor of Psychiatry author of the book Hypochondriasis: Modern Perspectives on an Ancient Malady Don R. Lipsitt...
Hypochondria, which involves the enduring false belief that one is suffering from illness, is “a diffuse conglomeration of symptoms,” Lipsitt said. This is one reason why hypochondria remains an extremely difficult pathology to treat, he said...
This is why, Lipsitt said, it is important for physicians and family members, as the first step towards treatment, to acknowledge that “the patient is not willfully creating their symptoms” but rather suffering from a sickness that is “very real...
...mind ... is created by the body-specifically, by the brain.'' Nonsense. Without experience and memory, the brain is mindless. LEWIS P. LIPSITT Providence, Rhode Island Via E-mail Particularly muddled is the idea that consciousness is just an illusion manufactured by the brain. Any illusion by definition is a conscious phenomenon. Thus the view of consciousness as mere illusion contradicts itself. We must do more than reduce the mind to a mass of brain circuits if we want to understand subjective human experience. DONALD MENDER, M.D. New York City...
Whatever sorrow this caused, Dukakis has kept it to himself. In his senior year he told Sandy Cohen that his older brother was too depressed to continue college, but never brought up the subject again. Boston Psychoanalyst Don Lipsitt, who has known Dukakis for 25 years, says Dukakis talked about his brother's illness mostly in terms of the medication he was taking. To this day, Dukakis will not acknowledge Stelian's suicide attempt, although his mother confirms...