MANY patients, if they think about it at all, cling to the comfortable notion that details of their most intimate bodily functions and dysfunctions are safely tucked away in a folder in their doctor's surgery.
The Boshoi's toxic atmosphere is infamous (and its dysfunctions offer lessons for businessmen as well as ballerinas), but no ballet company is without its problems.
It spoke of France's "fragile" position, a "significant" loss of competitiveness and "dysfunctions" in the labour market.
He has won numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Goncourt in 1987, an award he now judges.In "Leaving Tangier", the author draws on his research as a social psychiatrist that also inspired an earlier novel, "Solitaire", as a way of exploring psychological and sexual dysfunctions that arise as a result of migration.
If all goes well, a similar through-train could connect Hong Kong and Shenzhen, where more of China's start-ups are listed.But investors who dare to catch a ride will struggle with the many oddities and dysfunctions of the Shanghai market.
Sleaze is merely a symptom of deeper dysfunctions.
Its negative side derives from three dysfunctions that reflect its market origins.
Other dysfunctions of the immune system, such as immune suppression and immune deficiency, may contribute to cancer development and growth.
Set in the fictional American city of Springfield, The Simpsons centres on a family with all the dysfunctions of the modern era but the demographics of the 1950s: two married parents, two preadolescent children and an infant, living grandparents, aunts, and uncles.
The couple approach recognizes that sexual dysfunctions take place in the context of the interaction between two people and are not the exclusive problem of one member of the pair.
"Jane Preston [the director] had made this film for ITV, Being Paul Gascoigne, and Paul had found that experience quite frustrating because I think that focused on his family dysfunctions and his drinking and his constant rehabilitation.
