Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PTSD may not show up for years. When it does, notes Psychologist John Wilson, there is usually some precipitating stress, like divorce or loss of job. Occasionally, says Wilson, who has aided the defense in 16 PTSD cases, the veteran responds with combat instincts, sometimes to the extent of donning fatigues and grabbing a rifle...
...first caller of the day is not as disturbed as most. Bob, 41, is worried about "overtalking" and not listening to what others say. Psychologist Toni Grant answers soothingly: You are a lonely man trying to force intimacy from friends. Wouldn't it be better to stop buttonholing people and try to be more relaxed and playful? Says Bob: "You've just pulled up a shade...
...Psychologist Grant, this is another easy start for the Dr. Toni Grant Program, her daily talk show at KABC, Los Angeles. Over the next four hours, she will give on-the-spot advice to a stream of troubled callers-child abusers, rapists, baffled homosexuals, wife beaters and "pre-orgasmic" women. "It's a soap opera that educates," says Grant, 38, who studied at Vassar and Harvard and got a Ph.D. from Syracuse. It is also a vast financial success that has made Grant a well-paid star ("a median five-figure" salary) and draws an audience...
...actual advice, however, can be refreshingly blunt. Bill, 34, tells her that he has just quit a good job on impulse. Eager for disapproval, he asks Grant: "When will I grow up?" "Well," chuckles the psychologist, "that's a good question for all of us." She calls the hapless Bill immature and masochistic for quitting before lining up another job. "Never throw out the dirty water until you have clean water," she says. Grant is just as tough on Donna, 26, who complains that her husband goes to topless bars. Grant explains that men derive natural pleasure from visual...
Many of the refugees have relatives here. Mrs. Martha Pina, a psychologist, welcomed her cousin Armando Pavron, 29. The son of a banker, Pavron spent seven years in a prison camp for trying to flee from Cuba. He dropped to 110 lbs. working the sugar-cane fields. He is now employed as a dishwasher at Plaza Dining in Secaucus. "Even though I have a university degree, I am happy to wash dishes," he says as he scrubs pots. "First I will learn English. Then I will go back to college. I don't want any charity...