Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...using reinforcement technique. In the not too distant future, Azrin believes, "virtually all state mental-hospital patients can be discharged into sheltered halfway-house care." Reinforcement therapy has also been used with apparent success to treat alcoholics, autistic children and even unhappily married couples. Leonard Krasner, a pioneering reinforcement therapist at the State University of New York's Stony Brook campus, predicts that "within ten or fifteen years, many of the present techniques of psychotherapy will generally be acknowledged to be archaic, ineffective and inadequate...
...reinforcement techniques have not so far been fully effective in teaching the full range of skills needed to cope with many daily strains. Some reinforcement experts go further and admit that behavior therapy probably cannot replace other techniques completely. Allen Bergin, a Columbia University psychologist says that "the behavioral therapist can handle a few things quite well. But what can he do when a totally depressed, alienated person comes into his office and bemoans the purposelessness of his life...
Precious Relic. He has treated the wounds with biweekly visits to a mental therapist, having also experimented with marijuana, astrology, numerology and spiritualism. Despite his varied researches, Raffael does not come on, as he says, "like some kind of mystical freak," possibly because he leads a relatively sedate life with his recently acquired wife and her two children by a previous marriage on a farm in Bennington, Vt. His latest oils, shown at Manhattan's Stable Gallery this winter, also show a new, monumental serenity. Raffael now likes statelier themes: an Egyptian bust, a gem-encrusted crown, raised...
...recapture the internal meaning which the patient had lost. Psychotherapy, according to Laing, should encourage and assist the internal voyages of self-discovery rather than coerce the patient back to external "sane" reality by sedation, electric shocks, or other interventionist therapy. Psychotherapy should be an attempt by patient and therapist to recapture the wholeness of experience...
...Brazilians "a chance to live deep in fantasy," fulfilling everyone's "need to be important." A Brazilian psychiatrist, Dr. José Leme Lopes, sees it as a "kind of collective cathartic." Psychologist J. Wayne Gibson, an American living and working in Brazil as an industrial consultant and private therapist, has watched half a dozen carnavals. Last week he offered a TIME correspondent these observations on the festival's psychic roots and meaning...