Word: therapist
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Eventually, borderlines became pretty much anything a therapist said they were. Says Dr. Kenneth Duckworth, medical director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness: "If you hated the patient - if the patient was pissing you off - you would bandy this term about: 'Oh, you're just a borderline.' It was a diagnosis that was a wastebasket of hostility." (See TIME's health and medicine covers...
...engaging feature is her wry irreverence; a 65-year-old who has a maternal steeliness but was never a mother. It doesn't pay to underestimate Marsha Linehan. In Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder, she writes, "If the patient says, 'I am going to kill myself,' the therapist might reply, 'I thought you agreed not to drop out of therapy...
...mental-health professionals accused her in public meetings of being heartless, even unethical. But her therapy has saved so many lives and worked so well in randomized trials that few criticize her today. For Lily, who calls Linehan's therapy "Zen philosophy meets tough love," Linehan was the first therapist to understand that managing Lily's illness would require Lily to take a new kind of responsibility - a willingness to grow the emotional skin she never...
...beginning, Lily resisted Linehan's assistance. She felt no one could truly understand the depths of her pain. But Linehan was the first therapist who responded to Lily with more than just endless psychoanalysis and pills. Instead, Linehan taught her practical methods of getting by day-to-day. Once, just after she started with Linehan, Lily locked herself in her parents' bathroom and swallowed six or seven antidepressants in a half-hearted suicide attempt. Her father broke the door down; her mother called the police. Lily never lost consciousness, but the cops said she had to go to the hospital...
...People crave reassurance and comfort during stressful economic times like this," said Dr. Martha Leibmann, a New Jersey-based therapist who has witnessed an increasing number of single patients venturing into cyberspace to find a partner. "They are afraid of being alone even in good times, but that fear is especially heightened nowadays." A poll recently conducted by Opinion Research Corp. and sponsored by popular dating site eHarmony backs up Leibmann's theory. Of 1,092 respondents, those who said they felt stressed by the current economy were 14% more likely to aim to be in a long-term relationship...