Word: psychologistic
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...Olympics, she will have a few more tricks in her bag. Working with a sports psychologist, she learned that she built up excess nervous energy before a performance. Now she will run up and down the corridor to get some release. She also discovered the relaxing value of comedy tapes. Her favorites are telephone scams by a couple of New York City radio disk jockeys. Says Kerrigan: "They just call up people and harass them. It lightens up the whole atmosphere...
Tonya has her own stress-reduction regimen. "What I do is I basically try to 'tree' it," she told TIME. "My ((sports)) psychologist taught me that. You touch a tree, and you leave your problems there. I get to the rink, and I touch a door so I can leave my problems right there. Most of the time it's been working...
MacKinnon's lover, the much maligned psychologist Jeffrey Masson wrote to Romano, "I am not threatening you... [but] I want you to know, if there is ever anything I can do to hurt your career, I will...
...victim chic has found its finest expression in Lyle and Erik Menendez. The brothers admitted what they had done only when the existence of a tape their psychologist had secretly made became known. On it they said they had killed their parents because it was what was best for their mother, who had been cheated on by her husband. So what could the jury have made of the fact that they reloaded to shoot her point-blank in the face when she refused to quit crawling away...
Recent immigrants from Guatemala, El Salvador and elsewhere, even those cast into the tent camps, declared fatalistically that they had no intention of moving away. On the other hand, psychologist Michael Gellert noted that many longtime residents had heard so much about the danger that they took earthquakes for granted. When the possibility became real, many were jolted out of their denial. "I used to figure that if you have a life-span of 70 years, you'll have to go through one really bad one -- three minutes of absolute hell and then a few months thereafter of cleanup...