As we know, from years of "Monday Night Football" and Olympic coverage (blame Roone Arledge), TV loves what its practitioners call "stories".
With luck, before I ever reached that point I'd find a fiscal therapist, someone well-versed in the malaise that practitioners call "affluenza" or "sudden wealth syndrome".
Many of us know people who have tried to meditate and failed, defeated by thoughts that refused to stay put — what skilled practitioners call "monkey mind".
The final straw is the exclusion of the major bodies representing those very frontline staff from the summit of health practitioners called to look at implementing the bill (Cameron accused of divide and rule on health bill, 20 February).
Since Spiritualist groups often operate independently and practitioners call themselves by different names, like mediums, clairvoyants and telepaths, it's hard to pin down the number of followers in America, but Mr. Nagy estimates it at around 400,000.
A former adviser to the World Health Organisation and a sociology lecturer at the University of Essex, long a base for radical academics, she casts an unsparing eye over "philanthrocapitalism" – as she and some of its practitioners call it.
And it turns out, according to Dr Liu's ponds, that shifts in the Azores high coincide with shifts in the hurricanes in exactly the way that Dr Elsner predicts.Paleotempestology, as its practitioners call the subject, may sound esoteric.
The goal is appropriateness and balance what cybernetics calls requisite variety, and what many design practitioners call placing context in context.
The technique also involves what practitioners call "normalization": The patient might be reassured that hearing voices and seeing things that are not there is an experience that many normal people have from time to time, thus reducing some of the anxiety that makes sufferers feel distressed and isolated.
Yet they're doing in part what theorists and practitioners call accommodation.
