Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have suffered harassment; one seven-year-old had his shirt ripped off by classmates who wanted to see if he had female breasts. To ease a boy's anxiety about being a misfit, Green concentrates on changing his behavior through weekly therapy. Under the direction of a male therapist, the patients are divided into small groups and encouraged to assume traditional male roles in their play...
...obviously had no trouble dominating the patients in the cases reported by Haley. Says one fellow therapist disapprovingly: "I had an ex-patient of his come to me; he had reduced her ego to nothing. He's a strong, powerful, charismatic man. The older he's got, the more authoritarian he's become." Psychiatrist Ira Glick of the school of medicine at the University of California in San Francisco says, moreover, that Erickson does not have a high standing among many therapists because "he has only described a few cases, and he never, never describes any failures...
Even though Erickson's practices and claims are sometimes called into question, many doctors give him credit for sticking with hypnosis at a time when it was considered merely a showman's trick. "Some types of disorders need a certain kind of therapist. Hypnosis is fine for those it helps," says Psychiatrist Jack Ewalt of the Harvard Medical School. In today's more open-minded approach to therapy, hypnosis-and its sister principle of strong suggestion-is again finding a place...
...Conservative M.P. for the Edgbaston constituency of Birmingham, and called for a government investigation of the institute. Cole, who is also a lecturer in genetics at Birmingham's University of Aston and operates a thriving vasectomy-and-abortion clinic, professed bewilderment at the attack. "I could keep 50 therapists busy if I had them," he said. "One in ten British men needs help with his sex life." Meanwhile, Barbara Cole and other volunteers, male and female, were busy using the Cole method to teach men and women patients how to copulate successfully. Patients at the institute are assigned...
...ounce of usable material," he says. "In T.A., we go after that usable material right away." Harris stumbled onto T.A. when he heard a lecture by the late Eric Berne, originator of transactional analysis, author of the 1964 bestseller Games People Play, and a self-described "cowboy therapist" whose advice to patients was, "Get well first and analyze later." Before long, Harris had evolved his own brand of T.A. and embodied...