Word: psychotherapist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Psychotherapist Michael Herships of Long Island says his recurrent attacks a couple of years ago, for about ten days each month, contributed to the collapse of a serious relationship. "A lot of time I couldn't be sexual," he says. "She saw it as a way of rejecting her. I withdrew emotionally and she didn't understand. Finally she moved out. I felt guilty, asexual." Many feel asexual enough to swear off sex. Seattle Medical Assistant Mike Remington says: "We hear it over and over: 'I won't have sex ever again...
Although she is a practicing psychotherapist, Author Eileen Simpson does not try to explain why so many talented writers became so self-destructive. Instead, she looks back affectionately to happier times, when careers were just beginning and prospects bright. Her marriage to Berryman in 1942 brought her abruptly into a small intense world where the subject of poetry superseded all others. She took on both a husband and a calling: "To be the 'helpmate' . . . to a poet would be the most interesting and useful way for a woman to spend her life." Berryman, then 28 and an English...
...than-fit East Coast Type A female is submitting to an herbal wrap. A cup of alfalfa-mint tea precedes mummification. She sweats to the faint chimes of "music to relax and meditate by." The East Coast Type A resents being told to relax. The ranch's resident psychotherapist, Richard ("Bud") Murphy, will later tell her, "Many people come here seeking withdrawal from something-food, a bad marriage, personal problems, smoking-but they feel ambivalent and resist change...
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm. By using the confidences of a pseudonymous psychotherapist, a witty and provocative reporter puts the "talking cure" on the couch, and wisely prescribes further treatment...
...graduate students, and even Harvard employees in her practice. "At Harvard there is a lot of pressure to achieve socially, academically and careere-wise, and for many people food can become the anaesthetic that dulls their mind from the constant grind," she says. Marlene Boskind-White, a New York psychotherapist who deals with eating disorders, places much of the blame for the problem on the high standards the modern women feels she must live up to. "We have to be thin, beautiful, in good health; and on top of that, we have to have career success and be responsible...