Word: psychoanalyst
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...obsession, invigorating enthusiasts from train lovers to map collectors. Indeed, some experts believe there's a significant health benefit to be gained by immersion in a passion. "What gets a person out of [depression] is when you're engaged in a stimulating endeavor," says Bernard Landis, 77, a psychologist-psychoanalyst. Six years ago, he cut back his practice and enrolled in art school, and this May he graduated with a B.F.A. in painting and drawing. "You meet people, you open up new doors, and it just changes the chemistry. I'm sure it even affects the immune system...
...them would have probably tried to commit suicide by other methods." But the acts of Adamec and his followers may also have been a curiously Czech response to troubled times. "People don't take to the streets to fight," says Josef Nesvadba, a prominent Czech author and retired psychoanalyst. "They go home and turn...
...been so successful--Judith Beck estimates that there are 5,000 cognitive therapists nationwide--is that it's the perfect therapy for the age of managed care: quick, cheap and backed by statistics. Classical Freudian psychoanalysis demands four or five sessions a week, and a session with a qualified psychoanalyst can easily run you $125, if not twice that amount. Few insurance companies will pay for a treatment that costs $30,000 a year and has hardly any clinical outcome studies to back it up. Insurers would rather pay for a cognitive therapist--or for that matter, a psychopharmacologist, especially...
...Analysts are much more up front. That never would have happened in Freud's day." Many analysts have even given up the beloved couch in favor of face-to-face conversation. "I don't know if that's gotten out to the general public," says Dr. Elio Frattaroli, a psychoanalyst who practices in Pennsylvania. "We made a lot of mistakes by being too much in our heads...
...Psychoanalysts are also learning to borrow from other disciplines. According to a survey conducted by the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, more than 18% of patients undergoing psychoanalysis in America also take some form of psychoactive medication. Some psychoanalysts even borrow techniques from cognitive therapy. "The analysts have moved more in the direction of understanding cognitive distortions," says Dr. Glen Gabbard, a psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry at Baylor University. "If you look at good therapists on videotape, you'll find that the cognitive therapists and the analysts do many things in common." Many psychoanalysts also offer patients...