Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carnes, the most important support for the sex-addiction idea is that treatment programs based on the theory often work. The family therapist, who is featured on Contrary to Love, a TV series aired on PBS, is working on a book analyzing the kinds of recoveries made by 500 sex addicts who have been in treatment for five years or more. Among the more successful cases is Burt Schneider, 48, an author from Tucson, who sought help after going through multiple extramarital affairs. "Up to a point I could control it," he says. "After that I couldn't." Schneider learned...
...Kollek and to a host of other politicians, philosophers and journalists, both in Israel and abroad. "The most important commodity in life, which I apparently lack, is wisdom," says Peres. "David has it. How different things would be if everyone were like him." Think of Hartman as a "philosopher therapist," says the New York Times's Thomas Friedman. "One goes to him as to an oracle. He is the Israeli we wish they all were...
...comes TV's latest hit family, The Simpsons. Here the characters are animated but still a grungy, bickering lot. "Sometimes I think we're the worst family in town," says Dad gloomily. His solution is to drag his brood to a therapist, who hooks them up to electrodes as part of behavior- modification treatment. Result: they start giving one another electric shocks...
...sodomy at the McMartin school. To the parents of affluent Manhattan Beach who thought the McMartin school was the first step on the road to Stanford, this was a bombshell. They soon had fantastic stories to tell after their children were interviewed by Kee MacFarlane, an administrator turned therapist at Children's Institute International...