Word: psychotherapist
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...restaurant and was not sure who should pick up the tab. "Dreams of this kind are common when patients respond therapeutically to therapist-madness," Langs writes. "The patient wonders whether he should not receive the fee . . ." In another case that Langs studied, the patient of a corrupt psychotherapist improved for a time and married successfully, apparently in an unconscious attempt to show the therapist what a life of integrity would look like. "The patient obtains a great deal of hidden satisfaction in functioning as a therapist to his or her own therapist," says the author...
...Spenser's estranged girlfriend, Susan Silverman; her supposed captor is Spenser's rival for her love; her disappearance may in fact be voluntary; her guards are also employees of an unscrupulous international arms dealer; the macho Spenser must rely on help from a lesbian journalist and a matronly psychotherapist; and the perilous rescue turns into a wantonly bloody and ignoble business, achieved with the connivance of morally dubious U.S. Government agencies...
...complexity of working couples' lives. There are only so much energy, emotion and especially time to go around. When the career-minded pair finally meet at home, they are usually exhausted. Often their conversation is confined to work. Intimacy erodes; boredom sets in. Says Sara Yogev, a Skokie, Ill., psychotherapist: "It's funny, but even sex can become another task that they need to do, satisfying physically but not emotionally...
Artificial-intelligence theorists play more potent games. Teaching machines to play chess or ask questions like a psychotherapist's is only the beginning...
...endorphins, which induce the trancelike state that runners in particular achieve after about 40 minutes of strenuous effort. Athletes sometimes become addicted to these opiates and push themselves to the point of injury to get their usual dosage. Generally, though, the effects are benign. William Glasser, a Brentwood, Calif. psychotherapist and author of Positive Addiction, offers the laid-back argument that running "becomes a way to access your own creativity...