Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...controversy. Customers need only place a urine sample in a plastic package included with the kit, mail it in to a government-certified laboratory, and, after one to three days, dial a 1-800 number with their identification code to learn the results. While Brown, a Maryland-based clinical psychologist experienced in substance abuse treatment, insists that the code will protect customers' anonymity, critics charge that confidentiality after the fact isn?t the main issue. Privacy is the issue, when parents and schools confront children with demands for urine samples so that they can be tested for drug use. Moreover...
...psychologist they sent him to "was a really cool guy," Gates recalls. "He gave me books to read after each session, Freud stuff, and I really got into psychology theory." After a year of sessions and a battery of tests, the counselor reached his conclusion. "You're going to lose," he told Mary. "You had better just adjust to it because there's no use trying to beat him." Mary was strong-willed and intelligent herself, her husband recalls, "but she came around to accepting that it was futile trying to compete with...
...comes down to the same traits that his psychologist noted when Gates was in sixth grade. "In Bill's eyes," says Glaser, "he's still a kid with a startup who's afraid he'll go out of business if he lets anyone compete." Esther Dyson, whose newsletter and conferences make her one of the industry's fabled gurus, is another longtime friend and admirer who shares such qualms. "He never really grew up in terms of social responsibility and relationships with other people," she says. "He's brilliant but still childlike. He can be a fun companion...
There are worse problems than hope. For years, in any of the mostly gay neighborhoods around the U.S., it was common to run across old friends turned stick figures, men carved to the bone by illness. Thirty-year-olds studied the writings of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, the psychologist who identified the stages in which the dying accept their fate and dryly marked their own progress, good schoolboys acing their last assignment. And everyone had a story about ashes. You heard about Dale, whose ashes blew back into everyone's face because the wind was coming ashore that...
...possible health and legal hazards and then give choices for what can be done. You may say something like, "So I want you to decide whether you would prefer to go to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting or our doctor, who is experienced in drug use, or a psychologist or counselor." If drug use were to be viewed primarily as the medical problem it is, we would have more resources to address for preventing and treating drug addiction instead of spending most of our money criminalizing use, which has had virtually no effect...