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COGNITIVE THERAPY Rather than expect patients to embrace anxiety, cognitive therapists encourage them to use the power of the mind to reason through it. First popularized in the 1980s, cognitive therapy teaches people who are anxious or depressed to reconfigure their view of the world and develop a more realistic perspective on the risks or obstacles they face. Patients suffering from social-anxiety disorder, for example, might see a group of people whispering at a party and assume the gossip is about them. A cognitive therapist would teach them to rethink that assumption. Some behavioral therapists question cognitive techniques, arguing...
STEP 10: GET HELP FROM HUMANS--and I don't mean your therapist. Senior managers: let your assistant wade through your In box for you. Ordinary mortals: ask friends to stop by or phone in from time to time to interrupt your e-mail reveries...
...STEP 10: GET HELP FROM HUMANS ...and I don't mean your therapist. Senior managers: let your assistant wade through your In box for you. Ordinary mortals: ask friends to stop by or phone in from time to time to interrupt your e-mail reveries...
...August 1993, Stokes, then 17, told a therapist that Blackwell had been fondling him for three years during Bible study at St. Edward Church. The charge made news: the vastly popular Blackwell was the first African American to serve as pastor of a Catholic church in Baltimore, tending a thriving, mostly black congregation at St. Edward. The boy passed two police lie-detector tests, but lacking a witness or physical evidence, the state dropped the case. And the church backed its priest, at least in public. Privately, according to Margaret Burns, a spokeswoman for the Maryland state's attorney...
...these little moments of connection, Telling Nicholas can be cathartic and even funny, but it is not easy to watch. When Robert finally breaks the news, the moment is raw, discomfitingly private yet strangely mediated: we eavesdrop from the vantage point of the therapist, brought in to coach Robert, who is listening Cyrano-like over headphones on the front lawn of the Lanza house. Nicholas is overwhelmed by tears and confusion--he wants his mom back, he wants a new mom, he wants to go to the local dollar store, he wants to pray, he's afraid of dying...