Word: therapist
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...Alberto Caputo, a Milan psychiatrist and sex therapist, says that a third of the several thousand visits each month to prostitutes in the northern city are with the transgendered. "This is what we call 'sensation seeking,'" says Caputo, who treats patients of all sexual orientations and identities. "Men who frequent the transgendered are after ambiguity, which can create strong [sexual] excitement." Caputo says the common notion that relations with the transgendered are a form of latent homosexuality misses the mark. Instead, he calls the attraction "homogenital," whereby someone seeks all the characteristics of the opposite sex, save the genitals, which...
...Does sending couples off unwittingly with a therapist have real growth potential? Meera Mitra, a New Delhi-based sociologist and corporate trainer, says that divorce tourism is in sync with the Indian ethos. Many Indians consult horoscopes, godmen and astrologers before getting married. "This is just a new actor in the same space," she says...
...there is a major difference, says Zeiss, between a therapist being moved by combat horror stories and being traumatized by them - though it can happen. "Psychiatrists are trained to notice their own reactions and emotions, and if there's something hard to deal with, they should turn to their peers," she says. According to some news reports, Hasan's unprofessional conduct was flagged early on; at Walter Reed he was given a poor performance report, but that did not hinder his transfer to Fort Hood...
...synthesis for all the bizarre, absurd, or utterly inane things that manage to find their way into the 100 minutes that comprise it. Instead, Von Trier seems satisfied with a set of auteuristic half-measures intended to flummox or thwart critical impingement. When Willem Dafoe’s unnamed therapist-husband character exclaims toward the end of his wife’s treatment, “You don’t have to understand me, just trust me!” it may as well be Von Trier’s claim for the entire film. But the gesture backfires...
...When you go to a hairdresser, it’s like going to a therapist,” said Alfred J. Mazzarelli, owner of one of the pilot sites, Alfred Harvard Square Salon...