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...beliefs, political or religious. And they have stable ties to family and friends, which give them a reason to live and comfort that they have not been forgotten. In captivity they are able to forge new bonds with other hostages and often make sacrifices for the others' benefit. Says psychologist Julius Segal, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health: "Prisoners have told me that the best thing you can do in captivity is share that last morsel of food. It brings you outside of yourself...
Among hostages so far, McCarthy seems especially fortunate, but no one should suppose that he has escaped unscathed. "His family and friends think they have him back, but that is an illusion," says psychologist James Thompson of the University College of London. "They have a close relative of his back...
...treated 500 abusive priests over 15 years, concludes that the priesthood inevitably attracts a certain number of potential molesters because of the celibacy rule. He thinks one preventive measure would be to require priests to live in religious communities where there are personal warmth and mutual support. Psychologist Eugene Kennedy of Chicago's Loyola University says that the large number of priests suffering from sexual conflicts "constitutes a pastoral problem of the first magnitude" but that bishops by and large have refused to investigate the issue seriously. As the lawsuits and ruined lives keep piling up, such lethargy will...
Those spiritual theatrics have earned Williamson, 39, recognition as "the guru of the moment in Hollywood," the most highly visible advocate of a mind- awareness text called A Course in Miracles. The 1,200-page spiritual- psychological tome was written in the 1960s by a now deceased Jewish psychologist Helen Schucman; it teaches spiritual self-betterment through exercises to clarify the subject's perception of reality. The book has spawned an informal network of more than 1,000 study groups based on its introspective meditational program...
...criticism is partly self-fulfilling. "The westerners tell us, 'You're dumb. You can't do anything right,' " says Jorg Richter, a psychologist in east Berlin. "That makes people emotionally ill." The sense of psychic distress is so widespread that politicians often use the language of clinical psychology to discuss Germany's problems. Zukunftsangst is fear of the future. Wendekrankheit -- turnabout sickness -- describes the general malaise that has accompanied the sharp dislocations associated with unification...