Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appreciated your article on the questionable merit of various shadowy encounter-therapy programs. It is important that laymen be informed that techniques such as Daniel Casriel's simply break down the patient's psychological balance and result in no constructive, integrated experience...
However, the comparison of encounter groups with Arthur Janov's primal therapy is completely out of order: The primal patient is directed to specific feelings and is aided by the therapist to integrate the experience, so as not to become subject to unconnected, dangerous, psychologically damaging feelings...
...this setting, the actors would and comfort each other with a natural delicacy that testifies to Arthur Feinsod's patient direction. Feinsod has allowed certain adaptations to develop during rehearsal -- like Mueller's entertaining monologues as she tries to persuade her friends to renew their subscription to The Homemaker's Companion. He has honed away various lighting cues of the original script that might seem hokey today. What is left is a memory as transient as the match that Tom strikes to light a cigarette before each scene; the match flares, then the set lights go up. For those...
...minimize the chance of falling into the hands of charlatans, Masters suggests, would-be patients should be sure that any therapist they plan to consult has some professional qualifications-for instance, that he is a reputable physician, psychologist or marriage counselor. The patient should also verify that the clinic has a good reputation, that treatment will be confidential, and that no unrealistic promises of cure are made. He also advises patients to shun clinics advertising in the yellow pages or in cheap magazines. But the only real solution, he points out, is to shut down the street-corner clinics. That...
...Stanley Birnbaum, acting chief of obstetrics and gynecology at New York Hospital, believes that such laxity is more perilous than the Pill itself. Doctors should examine each patient and question her carefully before prescribing the Pill, he says. They should exercise extreme caution in giving it to anyone with a personal or family history of circulatory problems. Other doctors require Pill users to report regularly for examination to check for high blood pressure. Some even go so far as to insist that women on the Pill stop smoking. Among the stroke victims studied, 73.8% were smokers...