Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...facts of the California case were more tortuous than a television melodrama: a family therapist, acting under the demands of a 1980 state law requiring that child abuse be reported, gave Solano County officials information about a physician who was alleged to have molested his stepdaughter. The information had been obtained during a counseling session with the doctor, his wife and the girl. As a result, the stepfather was charged with child molestation. He signed a confession, but Amy's corroborating evidence was needed in order to prosecute. When she refused to testify. Judge DeRonde found her in contempt...
...says, "honored" by this retrospective, which is his symbolic coronation as the monarch of fashion, but it comes at a bad time. Saint Laurent is trying to recover from a kind of breakdown. He sees a therapist in Paris five times a week and takes a regimen of "calmant" pills, which he unwisely chases with alcohol on occasion. He is now so detached that he regards solitude as "a friend." The burden of putting on four extravaganzas a year-two for haute couture, two for Rive Gauche-for a quarter of a century would seem to justify a sabbatical...
...therapist working with brutal offenders, I am amazed by American reactions to private violence [Sept. 5]. Considering that more jail time can be given to a man for shooting a bald eagle than for molesting a child, it is no wonder that the violence perpetuates itself...
...battered syndrome." Says Stark: "They treat the women like they are crazy." Doctors fail to note signs of abuse, label battered women psychotic or hypochondriacal, prescribe tranquilizers and tell them to go home, and "make a woman doubt her own sanity" by sending her to a family therapist...
...Michigan Psychologist Serum, "but it's not out of love. It's out of a desire to regain control." Indeed, batterers can be very calculating, both in how they deal with their wives and with the authorities once they are caught. They are frequently charming to a fault. Says Therapist Jeffrey Perez, who runs a program for batterers in New Orleans: "These guys are real slick and real glib. They can play therapy off against the court system and not have to be responsible...