Word: psychologistic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They kept to a vegetarian diet that contained less than 10% fat and banned all oils. At twice-weekly meetings, a psychologist held group support sessions. Everyone was taught stress-management techniques, including yoga, and was told to spend an hour a day meditating, visualizing arteries unclogging, and doing relaxation and breathing drills. Smoking was prohibited and moderate exercise recommended...
...this a healthy trend? Psychologists generally give it their blessing. They see homemade erotica as a safe way to spice up a couple's sex life; there's the thrill of the forbidden but none of the danger of, say, an affair. "Frankly, I'd wonder about anyone with a camera who hadn't thought of doing it," offers Kate Wachs, a Chicago psychologist. "It's usually a fun thing done by people who have absolute trust in each other, are relaxed about their sexuality and adventuresome. It's the equivalent of making love on the beach or the kitchen...
...women often find do-it-yourself videos more appealing than standard triple-X fare. For one thing, couples tend to emphasize story line as well as visuals. More important, notes psychologist Lonnie Barbach of San Francisco, "it's not just plumbing shots of anonymous people." One Minneapolis couple combined a sleazy script with agile camerawork. "I was a door-to-door salesman, and she was the housewife," says Michael, in reality a business manager. During the taping, the pair stopped the action to move the camera around the bed, adjust the zoom lens and do retakes. Despite such antics...
Guided by TV, today's kids are exposed to more information about the world around them than any other generation in history. But are they smarter for it? Many teachers and psychologists argue that TV is largely to blame for the decline in reading skills and school performance. In his studies of children at Yale, psychologist Jerome Singer found that kids who are heavy TV watchers tend to be less well informed, more restless and poorer students. The frenetic pace of TV, moreover, has seeped into the classroom. "A teacher who is going into a lengthy explanation of an arithmetic...
...chemical castration." In addition, clergymen receive spiritual counseling to help them examine their commitment to their faith. Statistics are sketchy, but 98% of the priests who go through Paraclete's program return to active ministry. And of 200 priests treated at St. Luke, says the Rev. Curtis Bryant, a psychologist who directs inpatient services, "none has relapsed as far as we know." Priests who resume their religious duties are usually placed in new parishes (which are aware of their history), are closely supervised and participate in ongoing support groups...