Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assumption underlying your story is that stress is a given for our culture. That is not true. We have chosen to have a society with fierce competition, jammed freeways and "social mobility." I am a therapist and frequently feel disheartened while teaching relaxation exercises to people who work at intolerable jobs or lead lonely lives. Stress control is just another way to help us tolerate the loss of human and spiritual values...
...reward: one young woman ex-user who confided in Gate later wrote him. "She told me that I had helped her look at herself in a way that she had never done before," says he. "That had to be some kind of first for me: the reporter turned therapist...
...butter'") might have come from a property settlement with her first husband. But when Ephron is herself, she can be the most painfully funny two-time loser in America. For months, people will be debating whether Rachel's analyst Vera Maxwell is based on Nora's therapist Mildred Newman (How to Be Your Own Best Friend), or if Pollster Pat Caddell's white and black beard has been transferred to the chin of Carl Bernstein. That is the stuff of columns, not criticism. Long after the chatter has abated, Heartburn will be providing insights and laughter...
...Burgess's eyes, Freud is a Victorian Job, plagued by the doctrinal defections of Carl Jung, Otto Rank and his own daughter Anna. The therapist's love of cigars, which contribute to the carcinoma that kills him, is analyzed by Jung. The Swiss tells Freud's mother that Sigmund's smoking is "sheer devotion ... to you, gnadige Frau...
Poet Judith Thurman, 36, labored to form her first effort at biography, the scrupulous and elegant Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, along accepted Freudian lines. The author, so goes the convention, must interpret her subject psychologically for the reader. Thurman balked at the role of therapist. "Psychoanalyzing is absolutely useless," she recalls. "I was treating Dinesen as a case. I dropped that." Now she views her work as a love affair. "First it was the ecstasy, then total disillusionment, and finally came a deeper understanding and acceptance of the person." As sales and critiques have shown, the result...