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...know what roles Muslims should play in our military, but perhaps counseling veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan should not be one of them. Fair or not, I would not have wanted to talk to an Army psychiatrist of Vietnamese descent when I came home from Vietnam...
...John Edwards was given quite a brew, quite a combination of drugs,” said psychiatrist David M. Bear ’65, whose son was childhood friends with Edwards...
...tribunal has also helped Cambodians in unexpected ways. A counselor sits next to every survivor who testifies - at one point during the Duch trial, a judge even ordered a witness to see a psychiatrist, according to Sotheara Chhim, a Cambodian psychiatrist and director of the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO). An estimated 14% of the population suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, and Sotheara Chhim says the number of people who suffer from depression or anxiety is likely much higher than that. Though information about mental health is still limited in rural Cambodia, "the trial brought out a lot," Sotheara says...
...Alberto Caputo, a Milan psychiatrist and sex therapist, says that a third of the several thousand visits each month to prostitutes in the northern city are with the transgendered. "This is what we call 'sensation seeking,'" says Caputo, who treats patients of all sexual orientations and identities. "Men who frequent the transgendered are after ambiguity, which can create strong [sexual] excitement." Caputo says the common notion that relations with the transgendered are a form of latent homosexuality misses the mark. Instead, he calls the attraction "homogenital," whereby someone seeks all the characteristics of the opposite sex, save the genitals, which...
...child's emotional diet; were it not, argue some scientists, it would not have persisted across species and millenniums, perhaps as a way to practice for adulthood, to build leadership, sociability, flexibility, resilience - even as a means of literally shaping the brain and its pathways. Dr. Stuart Brown, a psychiatrist and the founder of the National Institute for Play - who has a treehouse above his office - recalls in a recent book how managers at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) noticed the younger engineers lacked problem-solving skills, though they had top grades and test scores. Realizing the older engineers...