Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Imagine being obsessed with horses to the extent that Alan Strang is. To the extent that they control your physical, mental, emotional, sexual and spiritual life...
...greatest potential for such exploitation arises in the field of mental health, because of the intimate and emotional nature of psychotherapy. According to one study, 86% of therapists acknowledge sometimes feeling attracted to their patients. Another study showed that half of psychologists have seen at least one patient who has been sexually intimate with a prior therapist. (In about 90% of those cases, a male therapist was involved with a female patient...
...other hand, mental-health professionals are supposedly better trained than other doctors to deal with the sexual feelings that arise during treatment. A patient's emotions toward the therapist are in fact a major tool in therapy. In a process known as transference, patients shift to the counselor the myriad feelings -- love, lust, anger, hate, admiration, envy -- that they harbor for significant people in their lives, including parents, siblings, lovers. By discussing those feelings in the safe shelter of a therapist's office, clients can confront troubling issues from their past...
...number to be advised on their future -- for a price -- by soothsayers whom they will meet only by telephone, introduced by Israeli "superpsychic" Uri Geller. Blissful devotees of meditation techniques sit for endless hours in yogic positions in ashrams, bouncing about on mattresses and trying to fly with mental power. With my experiences of these and hundreds of other incredible examples of human credulity, the notion of foreign agents' playing presidential speeches backward is hardly surprising...
...having lead poisoning. This year's budget includes an additional $500,000 in funds for lead-poisoning detection, prevention and treatment. Is that welfare, or is it 80,000 sick kids who are going to get sicker and cost our society for the rest of their lives because of mental incapacities...