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This 1972-78 sitcom had the good sense to take a chatty, psychological comedian and put him in a psychologist's office to chat with people. Though Newhart could do slapstick and broad comedy, he was also his own straight man, and this series showed him at his unflappable, Everyman best. It neatly captured the tone of a comic who kept his head when the neurotics around him had already lost theirs...
...doesn't require gym memberships or fancy equipment. The answer, they say, is walking. Unfortunately, most American communities were designed in the age of the automobile and aren't built for bipeds. "The U.S. probably has the lowest percentage of trips by biking and walking of any country," says psychologist Jim Sallis, director of the Active Living Research program at San Diego State University. Between 1977 and 1995, trips Americans made by walking declined 40%, even though a quarter of those trips are a mile or less. During the same period, walking to school fell 60%. By 2001 only...
Nobody knows how many cutters are at large, but psychologists have been conducting surveys and gathering data from clinics, hospitals and private practices, and they are shocked by what they are finding. According to one study in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, from 14% to 39% of adolescents engage in self-mutilative behavior. That range is suspiciously broad, and other estimates have put the figure at just 6% or below. But with more than 70 million American kids out there, that's still an awful lot of routine--and secret--self-mutilation. "Every clinician says it's increasing," reports psychologist...
...problem is that any time you chase a high, you risk getting hooked on it. "The longer kids cut, the more they need it," says psychologist Jennifer Hartstein of the Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, N.Y., where Vanessa was treated...
Overcoming self-mutilation turns out to be less tricky than explaining it. Perhaps the most effective treatment is dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Developed by psychologist Marsha Linehan of the University of Washington in Seattle, DBT is used as a frontline therapy for borderline-personality disorder. Because there appears to be a very significant overlap between borderlines and cutters, Linehan and others wondered if the same treatment might work equally well for both. It does...