.... Macri had started analysis in 1991 when, as a young entrepreneur and a member of one of Argentina’s wealthiest industrialist families, he was kidnapped. Traumatized by this experience, Macri started twice-a-week “ultra-Freudian” psychoanalytic therapy, an approach that focuses on sexuality...

... are. There are doctors who are able to lower the price for surgery but instead keep raising the prices and sell themselves under false pretenses. Trans patients are like steps that these doctors use to climb toward profits.” The latest trend among this medical community is “aversion therapy” for homosexuals—inspired...

... illegally detained and tor­ human rights lawyer’s body was found along tured, or murdered by the military and the with four other unidentified bodies on Sep­ police. According to Amnesty International tember 2, 2000, at the bottom of cliff not (in “Shock Therapy: Restoring Order in far from Medan...

... then be reprogrammed into multi-potent stem cells able to regenerate injured parts and diseased organs. All these efforts are now close to producing new therapies and, in the next decade, will make it possible to cure diseases that have remained elusive such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. After many...

... the narcologist, Bryun, says he is trying to expand alcoholics’ access to therapy, though without any endorsement of the House of Hope. Meanwhile, the country is continuing to suffocate. Moiseyeva uses the fundamentals of AA to describe the Russian government’s ambivalence toward alcoholism. “They are taking...

... services. Researchers found that group psychotherapy—which reaches more women than individual counseling—conducted by locally trained assistants in the Democratic Republic of Congo reduced symptoms, even after only six months. The WHO is piloting programs that provide group therapy to sexual violence...

... transformations cannot be left exclusively to grassroots efforts. They need to be jump-started with a little legal shock therapy from above. In recent years, American and Western European policymakers and business leaders have been forced to confront stark gender imbalances within prestigious and well-paid...

... about sexual harassment to millions of ordinary women who are exposed to much more vicious daily violence. Remember how many of the celebrities accused of sexual harassment, beginning with Harvey Weinstein, reacted by publicly proclaiming that they will seek help in therapy? A disgusting gesture...

..., Zapatero—considered an ideologically pure social democrat—was forced to accept that the system was failing and needed shock therapy. Obama had specifically expressed support for a freeze on pensions and a salary cut for civil servants—the first in Spanish history. Zapatero announced both “painful...

... Europe. For all the calls for experience of the Russian economic crisis in “shock therapy,” Western investment in 1998— are tentative. Secretary of Defense Russia proved scarce; a Marshall Plan never Donald Rumsfeld and National Security materialized. Support for democracy Bush...

...” and demonstrated “you could tip those lakes back” with a sort of “shock therapy” of removing certain abundant fish. Scheffer started to experiment on nearby turbid lakes, where flourishing carp and breen species fed on food in sediments, stirring up more turbidity while foraging. By drastically removing the carp...

..., and to kofaviv for group therapy. Men have harassed some agents, threatening them with retaliation for helping victims. Last June, a prominent Haitian women's-rights activist testified at a hearing about the rape crisis held by the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. When she returned to the relief camp where...

... laws that were on the books.”24 In Russia to choose.”22 and other countries where “shock therapy” Democracy, after all, is not simply about was applied, the reduced role of government process— about voting rights, for example— was reinforced by the demands...

.... The they must call forth superhuman powers to Nazis came to epitomize the apocalyptic steel themselves for their “ordeal” in killing principle of killing to heal, of destroying vast large numbers of other human beings. That numbers of human beings as therapy for the was the case with the Nazis when...

... state in practice if in recent years has come under increasing not officially in name. Education, social and criticism, relies on “shock therapy,” or the cultural policy, law enforcement, and taxa­ speedy implementation of privatization and tion are among areas of administration over other...

... be a shoddy process even in the U.S., but at least there are evidence-based behavioral treatments shown to work, especially when combined with pharmaceutical treatments—methods like cognitive-behavioral therapy, which helps addicts recognize addiction triggers, and contingency management, which provides...