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...ignore it at all. He announced his intention to do it, and we did our very best to talk him out of it, to reason with him, to show him that that was the wrong way to alleviate his pain, that it was, as his therapist called it, a permanent solution to a temporary problem -- depression...
...Adrian's therapist was dealing directly with his suicidal talk...
Alan: This is important. His therapist thinks he had a chance. Although there's no way to measure something like this, she thinks there was a shift away from his suicidal impulses. But, she said, once he got that book, we lost him. The book gave him confidence...
...doctor. You want to throw your hands up and say, 'If only I'd seen him earlier I could have helped him that much more.' " Doctors also warn about the risks of unregulated medicine, which is subject to both quackery and fads. A poorly trained massage therapist can do a good deal of damage. And some of the food supplements purveyed by health-food stores in recent years proved so harmful that they had to be pulled off the market...
...Canyon Ranch, a glossy health spa on the outskirts of Tucson that specializes in alternative techniques, a gifted physical therapist named Karma Kientzler watches a patient, Susan Pinkus, operate an exercise machine. Chemotherapy for ovarian cancer had left Pinkus with severe nerve damage in her hands and feet; she had poor balance and almost no sense of control over her extremities. Kientzler's mind-and-body system, which she calls "emotion and motion," has brought Pinkus back to near normal. A few days ago, she was able to ride a horse on a trail. "You have given me back...