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...payouts at Nevada hotels. After takeoff, 148 of the 330 passengers aboard requested time at the slots and attempted to line up the familiar combinations of bars and cherries. The jackpot payoff of $100 was signaled by three pictures of S.A.'s logo, a stylized bird. Said Toronto Psychiatrist Jon Ennis, a passenger on the flight: "Little old ladies trying to get to the lavatories had to push through the crowd around the casino." Alas, no one was able to try his luck at the machines for long, and not just because of the 15-min. time limit...
Walker, 39, is a psychiatrist. These four, and six other images, began to elicit comments from his patients, often providing him with a catalyst for therapeutic talk, an opening to the patient's preoccupations. Soon Walker began asking whether any of the photographs stirred an emotional response. "People expressed feelings," he says, "and at appropriate moments I could break through initial resistance and get to the heart of their problem." One of Walker's patients, a man in his 30s, complained of chest pains and feared heart attacks, even though cardiologists could find nothing wrong with him. Walker...
Terrorists enter the situation, although not explosively enough or early enough to save the book. The reader is trapped for lengthy incoherent chapters in the minds of Owen and his sister, specimens who would have a psychiatrist looking at his watch well before the end of each 50-minute hour. The only breaks come in equally long and profitless flashbacks to the boyhood of Maurice Halleck. The writing here is of the "It was a dark and stormy night" variety that Snoopy, the Peanuts dog, concocts whenever he tries to write his own novel. Halleck and his friend take...
...have been unable to explain the link between a bewildering array of physical and psychological problems and a normal physiological event. As a result, women have been urged to cope as best they can with bed rest and aspirin, or they have been labeled neurotics and offered tranquilizers. Says Psychiatrist-Endocrinologist Ronald Norris of Boston's Tufts University School of Medicine: "When there's no obvious injury, physicians tend not to be sympathetic." Neither is the public. According to a poll conducted for Tampax, 22% believe that menstrual pain is psychosomatic...
...their families and mastered "their inner feelings and impulses" better. The '70s teen-agers were less secure, had more problems and more worries about their bodies, described themselves as more easily hurt than the earlier group, and had lower ethical standards. "Over approximately an 18-year period," say Psychiatrist Daniel Offer and Psychologists Eric Ostrov and Kenneth I. Howard, "the self-perceptions of American teen-agers apparently have become decidedly less positive...