Word: selfesteem
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...coming together." One is that alcoholics usually need some kind of substitute for alcohol, such as tranquilizers or psychotherapy or a support group of people with similar problems. "Second, even though it's terribly unscientific, alcoholics usually do seem to need some kind of source of hope and selfesteem, or religious inspiration-whatever you want to call it-and that seems more important than hospital or psychiatric care...
...actress, says Joseph Papp, whose Public Theater brought Plenty to the U.S., is her "tremendous self-confidence," and that, apparently, is something she has always had. Brought up in London, Ont., where her father worked for the city parks system, she seems to have been bottle-fed selfesteem. "There were six children," she says. "But my mother always made me feel that I would do something important, which stood me in good stead." She cannot remember a time when she did not work hard, and when she was only 16, she entered the University of Toronto. That is where...
...failure." Michael's friends include his playwright-roommate, superbly underacted by Bill Murray, who is so sober about his art that he wants to have a theater that is open only when it rains and a girlfriend, played by Teri Garr, who makes high comedy out of low selfesteem. She is so insecure that when she is asked to describe a part she claims to be wrong for, she replies, "A woman...
Psychologists and psychiatrists agree on only a few points, and even these are highly speculative. First, the murderer is likely to be a loner, isolated and unnoticed, with few if any friends. He is probably low in selfesteem, paranoid and hypersensitive, taking offense at real or imagined slights from those around...
...been the pursuit of slipped discs, varicose veins, shin splints, sagging breasts, side stitches and hernias-the traditional rewards of running. Runners who speak of their exquisite pains (and many runners speak of nothing else) say the compensations are, and ought to be, ethereal: surges of joy, increased selfesteem, improved sex lives. But commercialism is afoot and mercenaries are gaining. The Boston Marathon is about to turn...