Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international guru business. Mehta has an impish eye for the spirit trade; a multinational convocation of celibates meets in Delhi under the motto ROYALTY is PURITY PLUS PERSONALITY; downtown, hundreds of Children of God are demonstrating for the principle of making love for Jesus. A California touch therapist attends a session in an ashram only to discover that his Indian counterparts use 2-ft.-long clubs. The visitor emerges with a broken arm. At a Delhi football stadium the followers of one guru await the miraculous proof of God from their master. His evidence: "God exists because if you look...
...school is the brainchild of Mike DeSisto, 40, a bearded and pudgy teacher turned therapist. For eleven years, DeSisto was the salaried director of Lake Grove, a Long Island school where he developed his therapeutic program. Fired after he was accused by the Lake Grove trustees of trying to break up the school, the strong-willed DeSisto announced plans to found his own school; and most of the faculty and student body quit to go with him. Parents of the kids were loyal too. DeSisto bought the Stockbridge property with tuition money they paid in advance...
...Shah's doctors include such experts as Physician in Chief Hibbard Williams, Parasitologist Benjamin Kean, who visited the ailing monarch in Mexico, and Cancer Therapist Morton Coleman. They concede that if they have erred, it is on the side of conservatism. Robert Armao, an adviser to the Shah, has acknowledged that the ex-monarch's spleen, which originally was said to be suddenly enlarged, had been in that condition for years. But the Shah's aides insist that the lymphoma is spreading, and so do his doctors. After studying a lymph node removed shortly after his arrival...
Last year a group of angry defectors demanded an investigation into Barham's operations. The California department of consumer affairs looked into the accusation that psychodrama sessions were taking place without a trained therapist in attendance. The department cleared the Barhams: ordained ministers of Barham's church can legally supervise such sessions under California law. This spring the San Diego district attorney's office investigated a report that a ten-year-old girl had been molested by her entity, but no charges have been brought because of lack of evidence...
Students who visit the MHS, says Walters, are very concerned about the confidentiality of the contents of their visits. Therapists treat such meetings with great care. As the "Guide to the University Health Services" notes, "Communications between a therapist and a client are kept in strictest confidence unless someone's life is in danger or serious bodily harm to someonw is threatened." Harvard students, Walters asserts, are not concerned with the stigma attached to seeing a psychiatrist. "Most people that come to the MHS, he says, "know how to use it, how what they want, and use it well...