Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Many physicians, notably psychiatrists, are raising their fees despite the Phase II controls. This is grossly unfair, since the patient is placed in an untenable position. The minute you say to your therapist that you feel his price rise is unfair, he answers with a typical psychiatrist's remark like "What are your fantasies about this?" and he suggests that your objections are merely "resistance" to therapy...
...carrot-and-stick approach, which rewards desired habits and punishes unwanted ones. Male homosexuals, for example, may be given electric shocks when they look at pictures of nude men and granted relief from the shocks when they view female figures (see cut). "What we are doing," explains Reinforcement Therapist Ogden Lindsley of the University of Kansas, "is very similar to what progressive businesses do. We constantly monitor performance. But instead of improving sales, we try to improve behavior." Such a pragmatic approach is seen as one of the major advantages of behavior therapy by its supporters. Instead of searching...
...almost all traditional forms of psychotherapy, the patient meets alone with his therapist and is expected to tell no one-even his closest kin-about what goes on in his sessions. A major exception to that rule is family therapy, a fast-growing new specialty in which the patient is a whole family. Several relatives spanning two or three generations see their psychotherapist together for treatment, which does not always probe as deeply as individual therapy but costs less in both time and money...
...first visit to the Reichian therapist, Bean was given a fiendish massage that searched out every sore spot in his body and tortured it. He went home black and blue, but breathing deeper than he had in years. Breath is energy, the therapist explained, and the first object of Reichian therapy is to build up a huge reserve of energy in the chest...
Once a choice is made between working toward total abstinence or social drinking, the patients begin training. Each has electrodes attached to his hand. They can produce a shock when the bartender-therapist pushes a control button. Those who are to be abstainers know that they may receive a jolt every time they order drinks and a continuous shock as long as they have a glass in their hand: they are willing to risk the punishment to effect a cure. The would-be social drinker can consume as many as three mixed drinks without a shock -as long...