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...director of North Shore University Hospital's Forensic Psychiatry Program in Manhasset, N.Y., "but I don't think that's necessarily the way it is." Studies have suggested that patients can be convinced that they have memories of childhood sexual abuse that never actually occurred. And sometimes, says Scroppo, therapists use multiple personality as a metaphor for a patient's mental state, and then the patient--and therapist--begin to mistake the metaphor for reality...
...matched only by his astonishing rudeness--on Fox's hit medical drama House, the No. 9 prime-time show among women this year. "Perfection is intensely annoying," says Laurie, who, as if to demonstrate, carries his prop cane in the wrong hand, according to the show's physical-therapist viewers. "Audiences were ready for a character who didn't obey the usual pieties of modern life...
Psychiatrist Ann Kearney-Cooke has been treating eating disorders for 23 years. About 10 years ago, the therapist, who is based in Cincinnati, Ohio, began to notice a disturbing new trend: the average age of her patients kept getting older. "We traditionally think of anorexia and bulimia as affecting those of college or high school age, and that was the case 20 years ago," she says. "Now about half my patients are women in midlife...
Your article on psychotherapy, which notes that the field is heterogeneous and often discordant, may deter people from seeking help when they need it. Heterogeneity and discord do not mean ineffectiveness. Psychotherapy is a unique interaction between each patient and therapist. Well-trained psychotherapists employ whatever is most useful to a particular patient at a particular time. There will always be new theories about the human mind and personality. There will never, I hope, be uniformity. Charles W. Casella, M.D. Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Stanford University School of Medicine Palo Alto, Calif...
...questions about sex, she has always seemed impossible to embarrass. But last week Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 56, was red-faced about one of her own answers. In First Love: A Young People's Guide to Sexual Information, the country's most famous sex therapist missed an error that would make a publisher blush. The book, in the second paragraph on page 195, informed her teenage audience that it is "safe" to have sex the week before and the week during ovulation. The mistake, undetected until a New Jersey librarian pointed it out, forced Warner Books to recall...