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...immediate, desperate question for millions of Americans is neither why nor how a person becomes an alcoholic, but how to treat the affliction. The first step, writes Vaillant, is recognizing that alcoholism is "neither a psychological symptom nor some vague unnamed metabolic riddle waiting to be deciphered." It is not a sin, but a progressive disease that may take years to acquire, and from which it may take years to recover. Writes Vaillant: "The task is to convince the patient not that he or she is an alcoholic, but that he or she is a decent person...
...Explains Ford: "They turn psychological issues into body issues." He cites one of his patients as typical: a housewife torn between a desire to work and a desire to be pampered. For two years, she had been complaining of terrible pain in her abdomen whenever she sat down. Her symptom, Ford says, was caused by her conflicting needs: "If she had a pain, she had to be taken care of, but the pain was also punishment for not working...
...independent researcher. Attention to detail is of course the foundation of accurate journalism. But these omissions are relatively trivial compared to your distortion of the argument that was advanced. We hope your readers understand that Humes argued that mass anxiety-neurosis affect governments, and that weapons fetishism, sometimes a symptom in the individual anxiety-neurotic is affecting the behavior of the super-powers. We consider accurate understanding of this point to be of such importance that we have published two short pamphlets on the subject. Indeed we consider the subject urgent due to the current oscillatory excalation in preparations...
There remains the question of public perceptions. Is the tax system really fairer than many people seem to think? Probably. Is the belief in its unfairness actually a cause or simply a symptom of people's desire to cheat? Probably both. Traditionally, the IRS has attempted at this time of year to improve its image of fairness and power by launching a few well-publicized prosecutions, or at least auditings, of some celebrated people (see box). But it may be that such publicity only strengthens the current cynicism, and makes it easier to rationalize tax cheating on the grounds...
...living, puts the recipient in a higher tax bracket and thus brings a relatively greater increase in taxes owed. These are economic reasons, and tax evasion obviously has major economic roots fed not only by inflation but by recession. Yet tax evasion is also a moral problem, a symptom of the weakened sense of dues owed to country and society, and the spreading sense that anything goes...