Word: psychotherapist
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...reason. "Tony's a tough guy. But he is a tough guy who cries, takes Prozac and sees a therapist," says a 42-year-old screenwriter who recently tried out the couch. "It makes it more approachable for any number of guys." Felicia Einhorn, a New York City psychotherapist, is seeing Tony's impact across the board in her practice. "Every patient comes in and talks about him," she says. "A lot of them ask what I think about the therapy sessions." The proportion of men seeking therapy has been rising, says psychiatrist Michael Blumenfield, partly because guys are learning...
Moreover, the children themselves, left unschooled in the arts of delayed gratification and self-help, may be more hurt than helped by their parents' love. Betty Frain, a psychotherapist specializing in working with families and co-author of Becoming a Wise Parent for Your Grown Child, warns that "the downside for grown children [who are being funded] is that they don't develop internal coping skills, and so they feel weak and controlled and continue to be dependent." And often greedy and resentful rather than grateful. Jane Nelsen, a California-based therapist and author of Parents Who Love Too Much...
...Americans, Renee Shafransky has heard the scare stories about how the continual use of cell phones may cause brain cancer. And like many other Americans, she is loath to give up the freedom and convenience that her beloved cell phone brings. So Shafransky, who is studying to become a psychotherapist at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, Calif., takes a rather odd precaution while talking. "I always switch the phone from one side of my head to the other, so I can equalize the radiation," she says. Glenn Wilson, a truck driver in Oak Park, Ill., is worried about cell...
DIED. ARNOLD HUTSCHNECKER, 102, psychotherapist to Richard Nixon whom the President consulted by phone and twice received at the White House; in Sherman, Conn. Nixon first visited the doctor in 1951 for back pain, after reading his book on psychosomatic illnesses. Hutschnecker spoke little of his patient until after Nixon's death. The President was not seriously disturbed, he said, but exhibited many "neurotic symptoms," acceptable qualities in a leader. Hutschnecker advocated "mental-health certificates" for politicians...
...these eight tales, frisky and wryly sympathetic Bloom, a Connecticut psychotherapist, introduces a heterodox band of characters that includes a girl awaiting transsexual surgery at a "gender reassignment" clinic. Bloom's specialty is flipping a taboo on its head. "I didn't want to shock God," says a woman who has made love in a synagogue. "What would have shocked God? Two more naked people, trying to wrestle time to a halt?" Maybe three...