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The Unreal World: 'Web Therapy' plot has some issues
"Web Therapy"
11 p.m. Sept. 13, Showtime
Episode: "Whistling While I Work"
The premise: Fiona Wallice (Lisa Kudrow) is a therapist with unspecified credentials who begins seeing clients in three-minute sessions conducted online via video chat. In...Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Fraud, Hospitals and Clinics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Television Industry
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'Dangerous Method': David Cronenberg on Freud, Jung and hysteria
24 FramesDavid Cronenberg, director of blood-soaked dramas like “A History of Violence” and cult genre pictures like “The Fly,” detours into the life of the mind with his new film, “A Dangerous Method.” Adapted from... -
Leo Rangell dies at 97; leading psychoanalyst
Dr. Leo Rangell, a leading psychoanalyst who argued forcefully that theoretical fads and factions threatened to erode consumer confidence in the field founded by Sigmund Freud more than 100 years ago, died Saturday at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He...Tags: Health Treatments, University of California, Los Angeles, Gabrielle Giffords, Consumer Confidence, Psychiatry
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Psychiatrists change their recommendations for depression's treatment
The American Psychiatric Assn., which labored to bring forth a revision of psychiatry’s “Bible” earlier this year, has just released a more modest opus likely to generate much discussion among mental health professionals. With the...Tags: Health Treatments, Health and Medical Professionals, Culture, Depression, Psychiatry
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Depressed teens mostly struggle alone
Some 2 million Americans adolescents experienced a bout of major depression last year, but only about a third of them got any help in dealing with the sadness, irritability, anxiety, guilt and loss of interest and energy that are the hallmarks of such...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Medical Procedures and Tests, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Depression, Behavioral Conditions
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Sober traveling: AA roadside assistance for a recovering alcoholic
Special to the Los Angeles TimesI creep through Los Angeles traffic on Interstate 10 toward my destination: an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting a couple hundred miles east on the Arizona border. My goal for this trip in the winter of 2008 is to drive from California to a conference in...Tags: Anglicanism, Heart Attack, Crime, Law and Justice, Tobacco Addiction, Baseball
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'Black Swan's' psychological spin
The premise
Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) dances for a New York City ballet company that is preparing for a production of "Swan Lake." Stressed out by the competition to be the Swan Queen and smothered by a controlling mother (Barbara Hershey), Nina...Tags: Entertainment, Health Treatments, Movies, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Emergency Health Procedures
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Hoarding: When stuff really piles up
When an elderly Chicago couple were found buried alive in their debris-filled home recently, their plight became a public example of a poignant situation that faces millions of people: the inability to sort through and discard possessions, some of them...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Physical Conditions, Parenting, Lindsay Lohan, Children's Health
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Helen B. Landgarten dies at 89; pioneering art therapist
Helen B. Landgarten, a Los Angeles artist and pioneering art therapist who established a clinical art therapy program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and graduate departments in art therapy at Immaculate Heart College and Loyola Marymount University, has...Tags: Health Treatments, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hospitals and Clinics, University of California, Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
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What it looks like inside a migraine
It can be hard to explain how your world looks to someone whose reality is very different. That's especially true for people with epilepsy and aura-filled migraines. Increasingly, instead of struggling to explain with words, people with these illnesses...Tags: Entertainment, Brain, Pablo Picasso, Music, Migraine
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Summer reading: Current events
Allah, Liberty and Love
The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom
Irshad Manji
Simon & Schuster: $25
The author looks at the contentious world views sometimes dividing Muslims and non-Muslims and suggests solutions to transcend those differences....Tags: Clark Rockefeller, Crime, Law and Justice, Islam, Tennis, John Grisham
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Theater review: 'Elektra' at the Getty Villa
Culture MonsterThanks to psychoanalysis, the story of Elektra will forever be associated with the female version of the Oedipus complex. But Sophoclesâ interest in this mythological tale has far less to do with sex than justice. What distinguishes Sophoclesâ â...
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