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Just as satisfying is the mental labor. A couple of years out of college he visited a sports psychologist to talk about his training. But the sessions turned into something more: discussions about how to integrate Dan O'Brien the athlete with Dan O'Brien the person. "It was really, really interesting for me," he says now. "I was happy practicing, but I wasn't happy all the time. I kept wondering what would it be like if I was just a normal person, if I had a normal job." Now, he says, he no longer wonders. The "world...
ELVIS: THE TWINLESS TWIN'S SEARCH FOR SPIRITUAL MEANING Peter Whitmer, a clinical psychologist and author of the newly published The Inner Elvis (Hyperion; $22.95), argues that Elvis' stillborn twin brother Jesse played a critical and enduring role in the King's life. "Elvis' psychic raison d'etre as a twinless twin was to put himself back together again," says Whitmer. "That was really the power of his creativity--as well as the momentum behind his self-destructive downward spiral...
...Hernandez says he does not understand why the school did not get Amber into impact counseling. San Pedro officials, meanwhile, insist that they are doing all they can, what with budget cuts not only at the school level but in county mental-health services as well. The one school psychologist for 3,100 pupils works "almost full time," according to principal Stephen Walters, but focuses on special-education students. San Pedro's impact counselors are simply dedicated teachers with a little extra training that consists of three to seven days of workshops and lectures, and the program depends...
...SLOWLY AND CLEARLY; I'M A NATURAL BLONDE. The central fact to cling to in that fitting room is that in the post-Pleistocene epoch, the body counts for less and less. Once, just a few decades ago, women were expected to be sex objects while men were, in psychologist Herb Goldberg's phrase, "success objects." The pretty nurse landed the doctor; cute cocktail waitresses were known to snag bankers and lawyers...
...Crimson reported on March 25, 1962, that members of the Cen- ter for Research in Personality, the department at which Leary worked, were disputing the right of Leary and fellow psychologist Richard Alpert, then-assistant professor of clinical psychology at the Graduate School of Education, to continue to conduct experiments with psilocybin...