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...officials gathered to swap survival tactics at a conference sponsored by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. They heard the results of a survey of 1,000 politicians, their spouses and children on their attitudes toward campaigning, media coverage and other pressures, sponsored by an Indiana-based self-help group called Partners in Politics. "Families of public officials have to learn how to do their job well without suffering in the process," says Carolyn Mutz, wife of Indiana's Lieutenant Governor and a founder of the organization. "Many political families don't know how to achieve a balance...
...Dorf on Golf, and Shelley Duvall is the safety-minded host of Earthquake Survival. Anyone for instant history? There are video highlights of Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to the U.S. and Oliver North's testimony at the Iran- contra hearings. Is the small print in those self-help books getting you down? Watch the books on TV instead, video versions of such titles as The Joy of Stress and Color Me Beautiful...
American interest in the cap revived in 1977 with publication of Women and the Crisis in Sex Hormones, by Barbara Seaman and Dr. Gideon Seaman, which contains a brief chapter extolling the merits of the cervical cap. The women's self-help movement began pushing for the contraceptive, but the FDA, citing a 1976 law regulating medical devices, ruled that it would have to undergo testing for safety and efficacy. More than 40,000 women ultimately took part in the stringent and lengthy trials...
...programs, says Thomas Kottke, a senior consultant at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., combine several approaches with plenty of long-term support for the struggling nonsmoker. In a study published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Kottke's team compared 39 different regimens -- from self-help books to sensory deprivation -- and found that they all worked about the same. The real key to success, the researchers discovered, lies in the amount of face-to-face encouragement smokers get from physicians, friends and relatives. Even if it takes repeated attempts, the ultimate benefits of quitting...
Thousands of other sufferers are turning to nutritionists, acupuncturists, herbalists, hypnotists and yoga instructors. AIDS sufferers swear by such self-help books as You Can Heal Your Life (Hay House) by Louise Hay, originally written for cancer patients. Another favorite is Love, Medicine & Miracles (Harper & Row) by Dr. Bernard Siegel, a Yale Medical School professor who theorizes that patients who take a role in their own treatment have the best chances of survival...