Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latter view is clearly wrong. Freud never expected his technique of therapy to be employed to blind men to the reality of their lives. He never hoped for anything more than a relative freedom from neurotic shackles. The therapist is not a switch-puller, but as an aid to the exploration of the unconscious...
...possible, too, that the former opinion fails to see the positive aspect of the so-called "unsympathetic" attitude of the therapist to his patient. Many have heard of the analyst who tells his patient, "You're being awfully defensive today," and shuddered. But the analyst may have, and Freud certainly had, a faith that men could stand the truth, that they do not need the crutch of illusion...
...whether he told a pupil to keep on making long strings of , or to concentrate on such rounded letters as a, b, and g, he always had his reasons. At 47, Raymond Trillat is known in Paris school circles by a high-sounding and eminently respectable title: grapho-therapist...
...draperies for the patients library. Gloria, embarked on a rare good deed to impress her husband, decides to buy some expensive new ones. This upsets crotchety Lillian Gish, business manager of the clinic, who has her irascible eye fixed on some bargain cotton. Even worse, the clinic therapist, Lauren Bacall, has already promised Problem-Patient John Kerr that he can design the new draperies himself...
Road to Withdrawal. At first glance there would seem to be little connection between cerebral palsy, which results from damage to the movement-control centers of the brain, and deep breathing. However, Speech Therapist Harrington (no M.D. but a Ph.D. from the State University of Iowa) noted the distress that besets so many C.P. victims when they try to talk. It comes, he reasoned, from the fact that breathing control is one of the motor centers most often and severely affected. This has an especially bad effect on speech. "After all," asks Harrington, "how much can you say on half...