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...Iraqi Women. His rheumy eyes can only cope with daylight driving; Aadil, 27, takes over in the evenings. Between them, the men make 37,000 Iraqi dinars ($15) a month. That's not nearly enough to feed the family - even though, like all Iraqis, they get free rations of basic commodities such as flour, rice, cooking oil and sugar from the government. "All the money goes to buy medicines, or vegetables and meat," Nadam says, "we try to limit ourselves to spending 1,500 dinars (60 cents) a day, but the money quickly runs...
...idea that treating depression might lessen the severity of other diseases, though, makes basic biochemical sense. Everyday experience makes it clear that brain chemistry governs more than just the emotions. When your mind feels terror, the resulting surge of adrenaline makes your stomach churn. When your mind is sexually aroused, the body responds in unmistakable fashion. The effect is even more direct with the 60 or so chemicals known as neurotransmitters, which signal one cell that its neighbor has just sparked and that it should pass along the message. Brain chemicals such as serotonin circulate everywhere, not only...
...herself a leading cognitive therapist. "Psychoanalysis is esoteric and creative and interesting, and the psychoanalyst holds himself up as the expert who interprets what the patient is saying and has all the answers. It's kind of the opposite in cognitive therapy." Cognitive therapists tend to follow the same basic script for each session, so the treatment is remarkably standardized. It's also remarkably effective; research shows that when it comes to treating depression, cognitive therapy works as well as drugs like Prozac. And though it's not quite as quick as antidepressants, the results last longer after treatment stops...
...school Freudian psychoanalysis has its true believers, and not all of them are doctors. Some are patients. "It's allowed me to figure out some pretty basic things about myself and why certain situations keep coming up," says a graduate student in her 30s in Brooklyn, N.Y., who went into analysis after a difficult breakup. "A lot of the jokes about analysis talk about blaming your parents, but being in analysis is more about learning to take responsibility for yourself and to take care of the people around you. That kind of control only comes from understanding your past." After...
...like mirrors. Readers in China find their reflections unflattering. I don't think Chinese critics and readers will be ready for my work until they achieve something fundamental in their lives: an honest attitude and an independent mind. Although my American readers only know China on a very basic level, they are capable of independent thinking, and you can't fool them...