Word: patients
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old patient at New York City's Phoenix House drug rehabilitation center who got hooked on crack two years ago. The product of a troubled middle-class family, she was already a heavy drinker and pot smoker when she was introduced to coke by her older brother, a young dope pusher. "When you take the first toke on a crack pipe, you get on top of the world," she says...
...physicians faced other painful problems. The sister of one patient, ) saying she was afraid of anesthesia, reportedly refused to be a donor. That left doctors with no choice but to search elsewhere for the critically needed tissue...
...characters who were once secondary in her fiction but who assume a new importance. Dr. Flood, remarried and remorseful that in his career he "has hoed a narrow row," assigns Margaret's case to a talented younger colleague. An operation seems in order. Whether it succeeds or not, the patient wants to explain to her only child, Bayard, 16, the son of her second marriage, why his parents broke up and why his once aristocratic father, Pinkham Strong, has become the alcoholic custodian of a secondhand-clothes shop in lower Manhattan...
Unlike Freudian treatment, which is psychodynamic and concerned with the genesis of unconscious conflict, the two talk therapies are straight-from-the- shoulder approaches dealing with the patient's current problems. Cognitive behavior therapy, the creation of Psychiatrist Aaron Beck, assumes that depression is the result of disordered patterns of thinking and tries to get patients to drop unrealistically negative views. Interpersonal psychotherapy, developed by the New Haven-Boston Collaborative Depression Project, attempts to reassure patients and improve their relationships...
...Roger Mamay looked great on paper. Over the years, he had worked in hospitals in four states, always arriving with sterling references from past associates. Thus Mamay's colleagues were astounded last August when he was convicted in Massachusetts for raping one patient and assaulting three others. An investigation by the Boston Globe showed that Mamay had come under question many times for unprofessional behavior and for sexually assaulting patients. He had been tried (and acquitted) for molesting a 15-year-old as far back as 1978. Apparently, none of this had been reported to licensing officials, and somehow, nothing...