Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tina Lucia, a self-styled therapist in Stone Mountain, Ga., uses crystals to treat patients, because "physical problems are manifestations of spiritual problems." Gallbladder ailments, she says, come from a bitterness toward God, and lung trouble from a hatred of one's own body. "All you have to do is release these problems," she says. She uses amethyst, rose and blue quartz, and even black onyx and obsidian. One of her satisfied customers is Annette Manders, who wields a crystal wand that Lucia gave her. "I healed a fungus under my toenail with my wand," says Manders...
...would like to get involved in sports medicine," she says. "I actually don't want to be a doctor, but maybe a physical therapist or a sports trainer...
Teresa doesn't date arm wrestlers, she says. She prefers "executive types," so she can wear silk dresses. She is the kind of girl that Robin Whiting, a 29-year-old massage therapist, would call a "frilly." Robin is a very muscular 5 ft. 2 in., 145 lbs., and she used to be a body builder. "I quit," she says, "because I couldn't smile at the judges like all the other frillies did. In arm wrestling, the judges don't determine the winner...
...Reagan's decision to go from biopsy to surgery without pause was equally disturbing to many physicians. A complete biochemical evaluation of the excised tissue takes a few days, contends Radiation Therapist Robert L. Goodman of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. The additional time gives patients a chance to seek second opinions and discuss the treatment with loved ones. Says Henderson: "Months or years later, they may become depressed if they feel they were hustled into a decision...
...fashioned American Utopianism. Sleeping four to a room, working on the community farm or helping out at its school, they drift around the place in peasant skirts, dreamily smiling and strumming guitars in the sunshine. "In Esalen, I find all the joys of paganism!" exclaims a German- Rumanian therapist, explaining why he is living in a trailer and washing dishes to support his stay. "When I had rolfing, it changed the colors of my day. At first I felt the sadness of when I was a little child. Then the rage and rioting of when I was 18. And when...