Word: psychotherapist
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...arias as a party trick in college--but it was not until his last year at the University of Michigan that it occurred to him to start using it in earnest. After a string of bad performances in 1992 threw him into "a pretty horrible depression," he told a psychotherapist about what he called his "other voice." She replied that both voices came from the same person. Within days he realized his true identity as a singer; just five years later, he won the coveted Richard Tucker Award, given to highly promising young opera singers (Renee Fleming is a laureate...
Andrea L. Hildebran, public education director of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Directors (GLAD) and Jos A. Pars-Avila, staff psychotherapist at the Fenway Community Health Center, spoke to an audience of about 30 in the Adams House Lower Common Room...
...only a matter of time before the male version emerged. Marathon Dad: Setting a Pace That Works for Working Fathers by John Evans (Avon) leads the charge with advice directed at the father who wants to take part in parenting without giving up his career. Evans, a psychotherapist, sees Marathon Man as the natural partner of Super Mom: "another breathless man trying to juggle the demands of a full-time career and hands-on, involved parenting in a two-working-parent home." But the struggle to be a good father is worth it, says Evans, because we are engaged...
Freud unequivocally stated that psychotherapy was ineffective at treating psychoses, or what he called "impenetrable darknesses" like schizophrenia. But his disciples set out to prove him wrong. From the onset, their intentions were not necessarily bad. One psychotherapist would sit in the urine of her schizophrenic patients to "prove she was no better than them." Another would bring autistic children to his home, convinced that their real parents were "killing them." Even John Rosen believed that his belligerent methods of "shock therapy" could jolt his patients into reality. But the progeny of these psychotherapists' "good intentions...
Fahey came from a different world. The youngest of six children in a close-knit middle-class Irish family, Fahey lost her mother to lung cancer when she was nine. In 1986, when Fahey was 20, her father died of leukemia. About the same time, the psychotherapist she trusted and confided in was killed in an automobile accident...