Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obsession with the lottery has even come to acquire an actual psychological label, "lottery fantasy syndrome," a term coined by Los Angeles therapist Robert Butterworth to explain the depression that occurs when ticket buyers pin all their hopes on winning, and don't. "It doesn't matter if you spend a dollar or a thousand dollars. You can be hit with lottery-fantasy syndrome as a result of simply buying a ticket and living your dream before it actually occurs," says Butterworth. When people don't win, he explains, "depression and apathy can set in, and life can seem even...
...donor. For the recipient the benefits must clearly outweigh the heavy risks; he or she must be willing to accept the likelihood of limited function and feeling in the new limb, a lifetime of medication, the ever present threat of infection and, finally, what San Francisco neurologist and hand therapist Dr. Frank R. Wilson calls the heavy psychological burden of being reminded daily that "an important part of your anatomy is not your own." It won't be an easy decision for patient or doctors...
Michael Gurian, a Spokane, Wash., therapist and author of A Fine Young Man, and Harvard psychiatry professor William Pollack, author of Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood, argue that boys are in crisis from emotional undernourishment. Though our culture views them as testosterone-driven demons, boys are much more fragile than many adults realize. And that's about all they agree on; where they clash is on the origin of the difficulties and how to avert them...
...their stomachs that transmit short film clips showing real children. In other words, this is a TV show about infants, for infants, that extols the wonders of, among other things, television. So what? say kids'-TV veteran Wood, 60, and co-creator Andrew Davenport, 33, a trained speech therapist and former performance artist; they insist that Teletubbies helps children acquire language skills. "Children are able to make their own meaning from it," says Wood. "We don't have an adult on there telling them what to think...
There always has been. The daughter of a primal-scream therapist who became a lawyer and a fashion model and real estate agent who raised four kids, Ricci was a devoted reader of C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia. She has conflicting memories of her young self. "I was the good child," she says, "always well behaved. Even if I wanted to kill someone." She also says, "I was an evil child--well, misguided. I just felt school was never going to end, that there was a weird smell in the classroom I was going to have to smell...