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...describes herself as a healing therapist, but to her landlord Sara Dale is a pain in the neck. British Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont discovered via London's tabloids last week that he had rented his million- dollar home in Kensington to a tenant who the News of the World claimed conducted kinky sadomasochistic sessions in the basement. Dale denied she was a prostitute and explained that she helps people with a variety of problems, not all of them sexual. But she admitted that her techniques occasionally require that she use whips and chains on her clients -- a service...
...month separation in the late '80s when Gary was sent to South Korea, also knows the pitfalls of overidolizing the absent loved one: "He may have sounded like Cary Grant in his letters," she says, "but back home he can still be a slob." Charles Figley, a family therapist in Tallahassee, warns that spouses may compete for sympathy, a phenomenon he calls I-had-it-worse-itis...
Instead, 40 senior citizens take a break to twist and bend their bodies to patriotic marching tunes and the instructions of Sylvia Piltch, a retired physical therapist...
...relationships and lives. This insight is not foreign to traditional psychotherapy. But unlike traditionalists, believers in codependence -- and the Anonymous philosophy -- enlist a democratic and emotional revivalism to uncover an individual's secrets. This populist alternative rejects the relationship between the weak patient and the superior, distant doctor or therapist. "We're talking about a group of people like myself who bottomed out so badly that we didn't have the time to waste on things like penis envy, Oedipus complexes -- however you pronounce it," laughs Beattie. "We were ready for some real basic stuff, and the self-help movement...
...reconsideration is coming from movement leaders, like Anne Wilson Schaef, author of When Society Becomes an Addict and Co-Dependence: Misunderstood, Mistreated. She now calls the term outdated and argues that it should be modernized with a new concept of relationship -- sex, love or romance -- addiction. Social psychologist and therapist Stanton Peele, author of Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment Out of Control, rejects the idea of addiction as a disease and questions the A.A. 12-step model's effectiveness. He charges, "We no longer have a moral basis on which to disapprove of, or respond to, misbehavior. We have given...