Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sought spiritual guidance in a visit to the Dalai Lama in 1994. After returning, she spent several weeks at a state mental hospital in Blackfoot, Idaho. Sundlun says she suffered "a psychotic event" brought on by her epilepsy. She had difficulty separating fantasy from reality and was hearing voices...
...could use the time to think about the day's events. Believers in new-age philosophies could meditate, provided they do so silently. More pensive types might reflect on the nature of human existence and other great philosophical questions. On Fridays, social expectations for the weekend will most dominate mental discourse...
...normalcy' in general, extending to the most private part of private life." Therefore it was not surprising when, dissenting from the court's holding last month that psychotherapists should have a privilege against disclosing their clients' confidences in court proceedings, Scalia wrote, "Ask the average citizen: Would your mental health be more significantly impaired by preventing you from seeing a psychotherapist, or by preventing you from getting advice from your mom? I have little doubt what the answer would be. Yet there is no mother-child privilege...
...Lewis spoiled his 1963 film by aiming toward empyrean realms, Murphy saves his by heading straight down to earthiness. When the Klumps--gluttons all, and afflicted with a full range of noisy mental and digestive disturbances--gather for dinner, they (Or should we say he, since Murphy is playing all but one of them?) constitute the funniest comedy ensemble in recent memory. This is an American family with only one value: tell the vulgar truth about everything, be it sex, talk shows or the price of airline tickets. They are particularly choleric about our obsession with calories. Nothing green...
...this beer that was half empty," remembers Mary McCagg, laughing. "Hartmut smiled for 10 minutes after that. It was great." Says Annie Kakela, 25, who is planning a post-Olympic trip to Alaska with her boyfriend, a rower on the men's team: "Not everyone agrees with the mental games he can play to push you to your limits, but I trust him to make me the best that I can be for the Olympics." Michini says simply, "Hartmut is the coach who will take me where I want to go." While they look to Buschbacher for knowledge and often...