Word: psychologistic
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...psychologist Lawrence Josephs can tell right away which patients are likely to fire him. The narcissists may be the worst. These are the ones who are there in the first place only because their spouse would not quit hectoring them to show more interest in the marriage, and the people at work just didn't seem to give them the credit or attention they deserve. Often, they stay only long enough to decide that what they really need is to leave the marriage and quit the job. After that, they sack the shrink...
...those who do, the options are growing. Analytic therapy, which explores past traumas, can uncover the deeply rooted conflicts behind the conditions. More immediate results can be gained through cognitive and behavioral therapy, which teach coping skills. A new treatment known as dialectical behavior therapy, developed by clinical psychologist Marsha Linehan of the University of Washington, can teach borderlines to recognize the situations that trigger explosive feelings, helping them squelch a reaction before it erupts. "The first thing we teach is to get control of the behavior," says Linehan. "After that, we work on feeling better...
...while biology is important, nobody discounts environment. Girls are taught early that the best way to manage feelings is to dredge them up and air them out. Boys are taught the value of suck-it-up silence. "Later in life," says psychologist Paula Caplan of Brown University, "women are thus more likely to come forward and ask for help...
...Happy Even When Life Has Other Plans for You (by Linda Richman, Mike Myers' mother-in-law), hundreds of books purport to help you feel a bit better. They speak to a primal yearning in the species. "Human beings want to have meaning," says Martin Seligman, University of Pennsylvania psychologist and director of the Positive Psychology Network. "They want not to wake up in the morning with a gnawing realization that they are fidgeting until they...
...Baker, a psychologist who directs the Life Enhancement Program at Canyon Ranch in Tucson, Ariz., supervised a survey of the mental-health canon. His team found 54,000 studies on depression and only 415--less than 1%--on happiness. Even today, Baker asserts, "the medical establishment continues to pooh-pooh happiness, because there's no money...