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J D Atwood

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PubMed2000

Presbyopic contact lenses.

The year 1999 will be remembered as the one in which a very successful bifocal soft contact lens was finally available for the millions of presbyopic and emerging presbyopic Baby Boomers. As a result, soft bifocal fits almost tripled in 1 year. The introduction in 1999 of new daily disposable and new high oxygen permeable extended wear soft contact lenses will give practitioners more options to be successful with monovision. Tips from several practitioners on being successful with bifocal soft lenses are given. It cannot be stressed enough, however, that for patients with presbyopia to be successful with these lenses, they must be willing to compromise somewhat on the quality of vision they remember as a 30-year-old.

Contact Lenses, Hydrophilic↗
PubMed1992

Constructing a sex and marital therapy frame: ways to help couples deconstruct sexual problems.

It has been pointed out that an integration of the fields of marital and family therapy and sex therapy is needed. This paper proposes a model for the integration of sex therapy and marital therapy. Recently, social constructionism has made its way into the marital and family therapy literature. Using social constructionist notions, the present paper proposes an alternative perspective to the traditional sex therapy models--one that incorporates a constructionist therapeutic stance utilizing the notions of sexual meaning systems and sexual scripts. In so doing, an integrated model of sex and couple therapy is presented.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy↗
PubMed1991

Putting Eastern philosophies into Western psychotherapies.

This paper examined the multidisciplinary trends in modern society that have given rise to the notion of the interconnectedness of the universe. This idea constitutes a radical departure from the spirit of basic research in physics, which had always been bent on finding the fundamental constituents of nature. The new physics abandons not only the idea of fundamental building blocks of matter, but accepts no fundamental entities whatsoever--no fundamental laws, equations, or principles. The universe is seen as a dynamic web of interrelated events, all following from the properties of other parts. The overall consistency of their mutual interrelations determines the structure of the entire web. It is evident that this idea is very much in the spirit of Eastern thought. The requirement of self-consistency that forms the basis of the new physics and the unity and interrelation of all phenomena, so strongly emphasized in Eastern mysticism, are just different aspects of the same idea, also exemplified by systems theory in psychology. The properties of any part are determined, not by some fundamental law but by the properties of all the other parts. Society as a whole is at a crossroads--at the dawn of delivery or at the dawn of destruction. What is needed for survival is a higher form of consciousness, a new stage of psychological development--one that takes into account new forms of reality. This reality has always been explored by the Eastern philosophers. It is time for this trend to expand into Western forms of psychotherapy by acknowledging the existence of a final integrative stage of development--that of global awareness.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Adaptation, Psychological↗