When they're doing their job, therapy can be sacrament, and sacrament can be therapy – not only that, but one without the other may miss something vital.
By then I'd decided that taking care of myself and finding a way to live with my child's death had become my full-time job: therapy, yoga, meditation and Prozac were the tools of the trade.
So far, he has done an impressive job of therapy and discipline.
The case managers follow their charges closely for many months and often help with job placement, therapy referrals, school issues and drug or alcohol treatment.
Yet several people who had been close to him said they gave up on him after repeatedly watching him leave jobs and therapy programs, always ending up behind bars again.
After she left her job, she started therapy at the Puerto Rican Family Center in Rego Park, Queens.
The independent program offers job training, art therapy and other services, and houses troubled vets with rap sheets and addictions.
After completing community college, Mr. Nordquist, who already had a bachelor's degree, found an occupational therapy job at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital in Clinton, Mich.
"I am of the belief that total immersion in a tough job is good therapy," said Mr. Specter, who is himself receiving chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system.
So when an actress comes along who is, as Dr. Gabbard put it, "actually doing a credible job of psychoanalytic therapy," is it any shock that real psychoanalysts adore her?
In reality, there is nothing rehabilitative about the place -- it rarely tries to help residents obtain proper therapy, job training or, at times, even get dressed, according to state inspection reports and interviews with workers and residents.
