Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soviet team, which includes three surgeons, a pharmacologist, a radiologist, a therapist, and a professor of social hygiene, is headed by Alexei G. Safonov, the Soviet Union's deputy minister of Public Health...
...some South Boston youngsters who are now starting their second year without school, the boycott is taking a tragic toll. The 16-year-old daughter of a militant antibusing leader has given up hope of becoming a speech therapist after staying home last year. "She just can't make it now," says her mother, who still refuses to send the girl back to school...
Some couples agree to turn over important unresolved disputes to an impartial arbitrator. In fact, some of Sussman's contracts, which he calls "therapeutic," were written in mid-marriage with the help of a therapist or counselor, mainly to "get the most obvious kinds of annoying behavior out on the table." Two representative provisions: "Wife will not say she does not believe her husband loves her" and "husband will lift the toilet seat before urinating...
Still, many patients feel resentful the minute their therapist leaves town. Explains Dr. Jacob Swartz of Boston: "It has to do with the mythology of the godlike physician, the fantasy that doctors are monklike hairshirt types who never need a vacation." Moreover, because a patient tends to establish a close parent-child relationship with his psychiatrist, he feels abandoned during his absence. Vacationing on Cape Cod last August, Manhattan Psychoanalyst David Mann received several phone calls from patients who had read about the novel Jaws. "They asked if I have been eaten by a shark. What they really wanted...
...ailment; doctors have known about it for centuries. But medicine has only recently learned how to treat it Merely telling a patient that his fears are groundless does no good at all. Conventional psychoanalysis is equally ineffective in most cases; Knauth visited a Freudian therapist for six months without exorcising any of his personal demons...