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...they could track down Mr. Miyagi and hire him as their personal massage therapist...
...their study, published in Archives of General Psychiatry, one group of patients was treated by scientists with the drug Prozac while those in the second group met regularly with a therapist who worked on helping them acquire control over their senseless fears and urges through deconditioning exercises. In 10 weeks, about two-thirds of the patients in both groups had improved. Brain scans of responsive patients showed a decrease in metabolic activity in the brain's right caudate nucleus...
Today the most significant damage from incest is psychological. The heart of a family, say experts, is not the bloodline but the emotional connection. "Proper human growth involves gradually separating emotionally from your family so that you can go off and start one of your own," stresses child therapist Carole West of Beverly Hills, California. "Incest disrupts that process...
...compete with the natural parent." Freudian theory holds that the earliest erotic impulses are incestuous; young boys unconsciously rival their father for their mother's affection, while daughters covet their father, a normal process in development known, in boys and girls respectively, as the Oedipus and Electra complexes. One therapist wonders whether Soon-Yi may never have resolved such early longings and might now be replacing her mother as the father's lover...
...compromise. Solid statistics are impossible to get. But anecdotally, the second group seems to be growing dangerously. While a few years ago the rate of new infection among gay men seemed to be slowing down, or even declining, studies in San Francisco and elsewhere have raised questions about that. Therapist Abbott briskly describes what many gay men report: "There is an awful lot of safe-sex recidivism. People who know what they are supposed to do and have been doing it for a while are finding it irresistible to return to their dangerous old ways...