Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over a bill to ban partial-birth abortions, which has no chance of actually becoming law, and wouldn't result in even one less abortion even if it did. Alarmed to learn of the many third-trimester abortions performed after six months, under milewide exceptions for vague reasons of mental health, Democratic Senator Thomas Daschle introduced a bill that would have banned all abortions in which the baby could have lived outside the womb, which these days means after about 23 weeks. Yet Republicans preferred to cling to their own doomed bill rather than give up a potent political issue...
...part, the defense, led by Stephen Jones, is trying to show that there are "mitigating circumstances." These can include severe mental disturbance, an inability to appreciate the wrongfulness of one's actions, relatively minor participation in the crime and so on. The defense will not attempt to show that any of these apply to McVeigh, but there is a catch-all provision that allows it to bring in the background, record and character of the defendant. Accordingly, Jones will call witnesses from McVeigh's past with the hope of humanizing him and showing that up until April...
...empire is merely a response to the outpouring of interest in his work--hey, if people want a book for singles, he'll oblige. But though his intentions may be honorable and though any number of people swear by his methods, his sketchy credentials and entrepreneurial energies have some mental-health professionals more than a little concerned. "Couples relationships are incredibly complex," says Anna Beth Benningfield, president-elect of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. "To tell a couple to go read this book and do this one thing and you'll be fine is very misleading...
...Mars & Venus counselor, and then a $300-a-month "royalty" payment. Gray says he has acquired his special love insights after years of counseling couples and hearing anecdotes from his fans at book signings and lectures. But he is not a licensed anything other than driver, to which some mental-health professionals would say, Caveat emptor. Dorothy Cantor, immediate past president of the American Psychological Association, questions the ethics of essentially franchising a form of therapeutic practice. "B.F. Skinner did not say, 'I discovered behaviorism. Now you can have it only if you pay me for it,'" she points...
...would snap up in the regulation manner, accompanied by an enthusiastic chorus of "Good morning, SIR!" Sometimes, Lieut. Sweeney would pause after he passed us, look puzzled for a moment and then shake his head and move on. But the notion that we could have an impact on his mental health was wishful thinking...