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...having him or her back in your life. Make contact with the firm resolve to avoid placing blame or continuing the argument. Drew recommends e-mail, since it is easy and nonthreatening. If you get a positive response, move to phone conversations and getting together in person in a neutral place. Before you see each other, rehearse what you will say, Drew adds. Advises Houston psychotherapist Sarna Sunshine: "As you plan to meet each other again, try to remember that the grievance that may once have seemed so severe may not be that terrible after...
...only did Beck reject Freud's idea of the unconscious self, but he also abandoned the formal reserve of the classic Freudian analyst. Freud believed the analyst should be as neutral and silent as possible. That way, Freud theorized, the patient can project personalities from his or her past onto the analyst and relive past conflicts right there on the couch. Freud called this process "transference." Beck and his followers aren't interested in transference. Instead cognitive therapists talk back to their patients, pointing out their misconceptions and advising them on how to see their lives more clearly...
...come up against a confounding mess of variables--everything from changing hormone levels to a patient's willingness to admit that a problem exists. But last summer a researcher at Stanford University tried to wave away some of the fog. Turhan Canli showed nearly 100 photographs--some of emotionally neutral objects like a fire hydrant, others of emotionally unsettling things like a severed hand--to 12 men and 12 women. Three weeks later he showed the subjects the same images and found that the women were 15% more likely to have accurately remembered the emotionally charged pictures than...
...irritating but harmless rabble rousing. Unfortunately, President-elect Roh Moo-hyun owes his recent electoral victory to anti-American passions. Most infuriating was his offer to mediate between the United States and North Korea, as if the two sides were equally naughty schoolchildren and South Korea a neutral observer...
...Tigers’ power play—third-best in the nation behind Harvard and No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth—looked to make one last run in the final seconds of Ruggiero’s penalty. But sophomore winger Nicole Corriero stole the puck in the neutral zone and fed Ruggiero coming out of the box. Ruggiero walked in easily and scored untouched for the 3-0 lead...