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...also important to master the fine points of fitting in locally. As a seasoned operative notes, if you're in Iowa you have to know when the Jell-O is being served as a salad and when it's a dessert. And no one can afford to ignore South Carolina, which is expected to hold its primary the first week of February, a week after New Hampshire. South Carolina may be the most crucial test--one that will show which candidate appeals most to moderates, Southerners and African Americans. Such attention is new for a state accustomed to being overlooked...
...techniques like Holy Scripture. Now they are being forced to update his theories to compete with new drugs and new therapies, even if it means using methods that would have been unthinkable to their patriarch. At the same time, post-Freudian psychotherapists are figuring out that the old master still has something to offer the science of mental health: an understanding of the human mind and its many malfunctions that's richer, fuller and more exciting than anything invented since...
...most virulently anti-Freudian strains of post-Freudian therapy, and it has become one of the dominant approaches to therapy today. It was pioneered in the early 1960s by the psychiatrist Aaron Beck, who was trained as a Freudian but--in classic Oedipal fashion--rebelled against his master. Beck dismissed Freud's ideas about the subconscious as so much scientifically unverifiable cigar smoke. In their place he crafted a quick, pragmatic therapeutic approach that dispensed with abstract theories and focused on results. Cognitive therapy attacks such symptoms as anxiety and depression by "coaching" patients on how to think about their...
Eliot House Co-Master Lino Pertile struck back, encouraging students in an e-mail to “give me a hand and let’s beat Kirkland...
...writer is Master of Leverett House...