Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Smith said their greatest concern was "how we keep from becoming therapists." To prevent peer counselors from assuming the roles of therapist and psychiatrist, EPO counselors meet with UHS or the Bureau of Study Counsel weekly, reviewing the week's activity, Smith said...
...problem of making sense of the field was painfully apparent during a panel on schizophrenia when three of the four members said that the disease was nonexistent. Family Therapist Carl Whitaker said, "The problem is that you have a disease, but the disease is abnormal integrity, loyalty to a view of the world that the schizophrenic is willing to stake his life on." Szasz saw schizophrenia as a "legal-cultural fiction." Said he: "It's useful to Mr. and Mrs. Hinckley to think of their son as schizophrenic when he's really just...
Virginia Satir, a freewheeling family therapist in Palo Alto, Calif., was probably the top attraction, luring more than 2,200 to a workshop, a discussion of her techniques, which she illustrated with a videotape. Satir is a peppy speaker with murky ideas, who often opens a session by asking members of the audience to embrace those next to them. Said one colleague: "She can fill any auditorium in the country, but she has great difficulty conceptualizing...
...several weeks. "Once you postpone, you never lose them as patients," he said. "They have to find out what the cure is." One bulimic who ate in binges and threw up five to 25 times a day was told she would be cured if she gave the therapist a penny the first time she vomited and doubled the sum each time she threw up. Says Haley: "They quickly figure out that it doubles so fast that they can owe the therapist hundreds of thousands of dollars in a few days, so they stop...
Zeig wisely urged the conference speakers to use English instead of professional jargon. Most complied, but there was still much talk of "accessing the self." The closest thing to a central idea was that the patient, or client, already has the answer to the problem deep within, and the therapist simply helps bring...