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Before he was an accomplished psychologist, Steven Hayes was a mental patient. His first panic attack came on suddenly, in 1978, as he sat in a psychology-department meeting at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he was an assistant professor. The meeting had turned into one of those icy personal and philosophical debates common on campuses, but when Hayes tried to make a point, he couldn't speak. As everyone turned to him, his mouth could only open and close wordlessly, as though it were a broken toy. His heart raced, and he thought he might...
...years since Hayes suffered his first panic attacks, an approach called cognitive therapy has become the gold-standard treatment (with or without supplementary drugs) for a wide range of mental illnesses, from depression to post-traumatic stress disorder. And although a good cognitive therapist would never advise a panic patient merely to try to will away his anxiety, the main long-term strategy of cognitive therapy is to attack and ultimately change negative thoughts and beliefs rather than accept them. "I always screw up at work," you might think. Or "Everyone's looking at my fat stomach...
REALITY'S PATIENT ZERO returns in a new season filled with twists: tribes start out divided by age and gender, and in each episode a contestant is marooned alone on an isle that hides an immunity idol to protect against the weekly vote-offs. But gimmicks aside, Survivor always comes down to the casting, conflicts and characters, and so far the competitors in this set are promisingfrom a "fire dancer" to a retired space-shuttle astronaut. He should know a thing or two about being stuck with a small group for extended periods...
...boon for nearby hill tribes, who could grow the plants required. India's coir industry-which produces matting and mattresses from coconut fiber-may also find a new market if weavers can be persuaded to work with coir as well as yarn. But for now, the weavers must be patient, and hope that the present trickle of buyers can be converted into steady orders. "[Ayurvastra] seems like the next logical step for us," says Satish, a weaver who has researched ayurvedic formulas. Let's hope that it really can make its wearers feel as good as they look...
...DIED. NORMAN SHUMWAY, 83, the first physician to perform a successful heart transplant in the U.S.; in Palo Alto, California. His first transplant patient, in 1968, died of complications after 14 days. In the years that followed, most transplants ended in lethal infections or organ rejection soon after surgery. But Shumway, working with a Stanford University team, used smaller doses of toxic anti-rejection drugs and found other ways to dramatically improve transplant survival rates...