Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Catlin suggests that anyone anxious about an exam come in and see a therapist. One advantage to catching exam anxiety early, he points out, is that if the exam anxiety is triggered solely because of the exam--because the student hasn't done the work, or didn't understand it--the problem can be transferred to the Bureau of Study Counsel, which works closely with Mental Health Services...
Along the way, Elkin displays his unique gift for surreal parody. In a sultan's harem, the chief eunuch gives a sex lecture in the tone of a call-in therapist: "You could fault tonight, you could die. In any event, I trust a review can do no harm, and I enjoy our chalk talks." A crusading George speaks with Joycean extravagance: " 'We were friends,' he says again of the man he has just mutilated. . .'He was wily. I frisked his shift and groped his robes. I did his duds like a dowser. . .And it came...
...their third meeting, supposedly in an encounter that also involved two other women. After that, according to her lawsuit, she was his constant companion, confidante and business partner, though somehow she found time to divorce her husband and wed and shed two more. She also served as his "therapist," she alleges, trying to help him "overcome his Marquis de Sade complex." The therapy Morgan administered remains vague, but it was alluded to in court papers filed by Hillel Chodos, Betsy Bloomingdale's attorney. He wrote, "[Morgan] was going to help him by watching him so if he became more...
...Malcolm Freeman, a sex therapist and professor of gynecology at Emory University in Atlanta, disagrees: "It's very clear that the spot exists. Some women have a small tissue buildup, a remnant of prostate vestige." He adds that the authors' additional claim-that a stimulated G spot may secrete a fluid-should serve to alleviate the anxiety of women who notice unexpected secretions during orgasm. "In the years before I was aware of the G spot," he says, "I saw about one patient a year who came to me very anxious because she seemed to be urinating during...
When Advertising Executive Todd Lief, 47, gave up his four-pack-a-day cigarette habit a few years ago, he put aside his tobacco money to buy an Apple computer. His wife Jo, 44, a Chicago family therapist, supported the idea. At least at first. Then she discovered that computers, like cigarettes, can be habit forming. "He really got into it," she says. "After a while, I felt angry-abandoned. On a sunny, beautiful day he would sit at the computer for eight hours straight...