Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Laing, the favorite shrink of student rebels in the '60s, retains his romantic opinion of schizophrenics as brave victims who are defying a cruel culture. He suggested that many people are diagnosed as schizophrenic simply because they sleep during the day and stay awake at night. Schizophrenia did not exist until the word was invented, he said. That was too much for Judd | Marmor, a former president of the American Psychiatric Association. He called the panel a "travesty." At a later panel, a woman in the audience asked Laing how he would deal with schizophrenics. Laing bobbed and weaved...
...Jupiter, its most volatile material begins forming a coma that reflects light. By the time the most powerful telescopes first catch a glimpse of a comet, the coma already obscures the nucleus beneath. For every revolution a typical comet makes around the sun, its diameter is estimated to shrink about 6 ft. Hence the original size of the comet, the length of its orbit and how close it gets to the sun will determine its life-span. Astronomers estimate that Halley's, which has a relatively short period, will probably last another 225,000 years, a mere wink of astronomical...
...first period hat trick silenced the 50 spectators who packed the frigid Arena while giving the Lady Friars (4-1-1) a lead that would neither grow--thanks to a tough Cantab defense--nor shrink...
Enter the shrink. On Oct. 28, the State Department removed Medved from the freighter and asked Air Force psychiatrist Maj. William M. Hunt III to interview him. Hunt conducted two psychiatric interviews with Medved over 12 hours. Then Medved went back to his ship and Hunt back to his typewriter...
...help you with that." Bruce's doctor, Mrs. Wallace, displays her wackiness through her wild word searches--"derigible...no, I mean secretary!"--which are over-written, though not overplayed. If you want a stuffed Snoopy to bark support for your ability to express your emotions, she's the shrink for you. She helps Bob, Bruce's lover, when he is suicidally upset with Bruce for seeing a woman (Prudence); she helps them all in the end, if they can be helped, with her "I'm OK, you're OK" philosophy. Mrs. Wallace is wacky but hers isn't the real...