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...easier to treat and detect if doctors knew what caused it. The fact that the disease often occurs in several members of the same family suggests that a genetic factor is at work. This factor "is most prominent in very early onset cases," says University of Minnesota Psychiatrist Leonard Heston...
...take a decade for experts to find fault with the M & J data? Says Psychiatrist Raul Schiavi, director of the Mount Sinai Hospital Human Sexuality Program in New York City: "Masters was the prototypical godlike figure that people hesitated to challenge. And people were so taken by the initial optimism about sex therapy that they did not actually look at the long-term outcome data as carefully as they should have." M & J's defenders stress the debt that all sex therapists owe to their early efforts. "A midget can see farther than a giant...
Whether or not daily stresses and hassles do more damage than life-change events may, in the final analysis, be a moot point. A single event can cause smaller changes that touch every aspect of existence. Divorce, for example, "is not an isolated event," observes U.C.S.F. Psychiatrist Leonard Pearlin. "It is accompanied by some social isolation, a reduction in income and sometimes the problems of being a single parent. These become the chronic strains of life...
...Clark was considered by his doctors to have been crucial to his remarkable endurance after receiving the artificial heart. Lonely heart attack patients have been shown to live longer when given a pet. Herpes sufferers seem to be helped just by participating in a self-help group. Says U.C.S.F. Psychiatrist Horowitz: "These self-help groups, for everything from single parents to rape victims, are very useful. They replace the smalltown systems that we've lost...
...circulatory disorder that causes painfully cold hands and feet), gastric ulcers and colitis. "Ten or 15 years ago, we thought there was no therapy for stress," says Stanford Psychiatrist Stewart Agras. "Now we know that relaxation is not a gimmick; it works...