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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...
...children, and-in the words of Trachtenberg-"to stop the trauma from passing on to the third generation." Still, there is no way to protect that generation from the emotional shock of learning what the Nazis did. Anne Sommerfeld-Halliwell, a survivor's child and a Yale psychologist, reports that her daughter Naria, 4, already wants to know "Will the bad men come here?" Her son Eli wrote a poem about assassinating Hitler, and at age nine, he is shaken by recurring fantasies of revenge. Says their mother, who is studying the effects of the Holocaust across generations: "When...
...sometimes Fixx gets slightly carried away. For instance, in listing motivational techniques, he cites one suggestion proffered by Massachusetts psychologist Dr. Albert J. Kearney...
According to many psychotherapists, the nation's economic woes are beginning to have a heavy impact on their practice. One common report: the pressures of inflation are sending many marginally stable patients over the brink. Says Alan Gruber, a psychologist at Social Counselling Associates in Hanover, Mass.: "The people we see would ordinarily be able to cope, but with inflation, they can't cope now. It is just too much." Adds Cleveland Psychotherapist Jack Wiggins: "We're seeing a cumulative effect. When financial problems are added to internal problems, they tend to overwhelm people." St. Louis Psychologist...
...sign of the times is that therapists are resigned to talking more and more about money in sessions with troubled patients. "It used to be that 5% of our conversation concerned economic worries," says Los Angeles Psychologist James W. Gottfurcht. "Now it is 10% to 20%." Some therapists have even taken on the role of financial adviser to their patients. Says Manhattan Psychologist Salvatore Didato: "I spend many more hours than I'd like to trying to help people find jobs, readjust their careers and find ways of making more money." Therapist Margaret Nichols of Atlanta is willing...