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...some cognitive therapists admit that despite 40 years of research, some fundamental questions about the therapy haven't been resolved. That's partly because cognitive therapy involves a variety of techniques. In addition to questioning negative thoughts in the therapy office, cognitive therapists use behavioral homework assignments-for instance, phobic patients may be asked to expose themselves to fears (like Beck going through the tunnel). Depressed clients are asked to schedule regular activities. But if cognitive therapy is all those things, critics say, maybe getting better is a matter of merely changing old behaviors, not questioning negative beliefs...
...It’s not just a question of visas—I think it’s an image problem as well. We’re seen as sort of phobic about foreigners,” Kuhn said. “Bad images tend to linger, and we are going to pay a price for this so-called security business...
AIDS victims and people associated with them experience widespread discrimination, some of it heartless, some of it phobic. In New York City, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend was served with an eviction notice by the co-op board in the building where he practiced. "I treated people with AIDS," he explained. "People in the building didn't like AIDS patients walking through the lobby." In New Orleans, Johnny Greene, a writer, was fired from an editing job with McDermott International Inc. after writing an article for PEOPLE magazine about his own suspected case of AIDS. "They just walked in and said...
Thanks to our football-phobic presidents, however, we’re just left to speculate how far this Crimson team could have advanced. And that’s a travesty...
Although anorexia and obesity look nothing alike in clinical terms, there are similarities. People with both disorders tend to organize their days around eating and allow food to loom too large in their lives. "People who are anorexic and people who are overweight often begin to get phobic about food," says Dr. William Davis, of the Renfrew Center in Philadelphia, which treats patients with eating disorders. Food for them is much more than a source of nourishment; it can become a substitute for self-esteem and a vehicle for exercising--or losing--control over the body...