Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people of the tiny central African state of Rwanda she was known as Nyiramacibili, or "the Woman Who Lives Alone in the Forest." Her real name was Dian Fossey, and she was a onetime occupational therapist from Louisville. For most of the past 18 years Fossey had lived at a remote camp on the slopes of a dormant volcano. There she studied and befriended the rare mountain gorillas, fiercely defending the huge, gentle creatures against the encroachment of poachers. Almost everyone, including her last research assistant, Wayne McGuire, 34, a doctoral candidate from the University of Oklahoma, felt...
...novel relied on Ephron's cauterizing prose to anchor the reader; the movie's commentary is the dialogue that Streep's fine, suggestive face carries on with the viewer. Stranded in rage, this Rachel has only the camera as her therapist, and Streep will turn to it as to a friend, confiding a querulous eyebrow or subtle grimace, simultaneously inhabiting and commenting on her role. Nicholson has a tougher assignment. He is, here, only half a man, all surface and no substance, and finally he distances himself from Mark, his face going slack in a kind of moral torpor...
...announcement of the findings comes at a time when drug treatments are on the rise and psychotherapists are under heavy pressure from health- insurance programs to find quick and cheap treatments that work. Though the art and experience of the therapist may be crucial to a cure, these are factors that hardly lend themselves to scientific analysis, which is one reason that the NIMH study chose talk therapies that can be packaged and dispensed relatively easily. The 18 therapists who conducted the two talk therapies were certified in those treatments after two years of training...
...Touch cards, published last month in a 55 million-card first printing, were written by David Viscott, a radio therapist and author (The Making of a Psychiatrist). "This is really America in therapy," he says, "people trying to get themselves together and be whole." Like many other writers of emotional cards, Viscott sometimes seems to be cannibalizing old song lyrics and old movie scripts ("Nobody does it better"; "No matter what happens, we always have us"), but he is willing to tackle unusual subjects like insecurity in the office. One such message -- "Your efficiency sometimes scares the hell...
...McKenna emphasizes that a therapist cannot do it for them. "They have to realize what purpose it [binging] serves. Because when they start out, it serves a purpose," says McKenna. "A person has to be ready to work with a therapist," she adds...