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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 15, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Brian Cole 6977044 readers forum Winnipeg free press ii h q August 1997 n i o therapy an effective treatment i would like to comment on your disjointed editorial mysteries of the human mind free july you talk of fads in diseases and conditions and comment that everyone likes to be on the bandwagon in any area of you then go on to refute the possibility of people imagining diseases and conditions by saying that clinical depression is a serious condition that we know can be treated with you then go on to say that people still flock to psychotherapy although Freud is largely you say that we dont seem to know much about the human mind and dont use it very you Are guilty of this yourself when you say that everyone likes to be on the band Wagon in any area of there Are Many such As those who Are those who Are those who Are Apa thetic and those who Are living in who do not know care about or like to be on like everything has evolved and few of today psychotherapies Are freudian in the fact that people flock to psychotherapy has Little to do with Freud people Are not flocking to freudian traditional forms of psychotherapy have Little Success in treating there is no bandwagon to seek traditional psychotherapy to treat depression can be treated with another form of psychotherapy one of the most successful forms of psychotherapy in dealing with depression is cognitive which is therapy for the mind and How to use it an article in the 1995 Issue of professional psychology by Danton and Denelsky reviewed a wide Range of Well con trolled studies comparing psychological and pharmacological treatments for the researchers found that psychological particularly cognitive behave Youral Are at least As effective As medication in the treatment of even if the depression is As research by Evans it Al in a 1992 Issue of the archives of general psychiatry found that cognitive therapy was no less effective than medication in preventing a relapse from individuals taking medication tend to discontinue this usage More so than cognitive which teaches the rational thinking skills you psychologists know much More about the mind than cognitive therapy teaches thinking skills to Cope with and Over come distorted negative thinking patterns that induce cognitive therapy is front and Centre As a leading psychotherapy to treat depression successfully without med Many psychologists treat depression successfully with cognitive behavioural ther without relying on knowledge about diseases and medication has advanced More so than knowledge about the mind and partly because of the overemphasis on the medical the methods of funding research and pay ment for professional services in the area of mental illness and psychological problems favours the disease medication Many physicians in our country rely purely on medication for treatment of and provincial healthcare plans cover payment to Access to cognitive therapy is limited in primarily because none of the provincial health plans cover psychological services provided by Psychol who provide much of the cognitive psychologists Are available primarily through hospitals or private practice Many depressed individuals Are not seriously ill enough to be hospitalized or have Little financial Independence to pay for Pri vate As a they May have Access to this is especially Given that cognitive behavioural psychotherapies Are an attractive cos effective alternative to drug treatments when treating articles such As yours need to emphasize the vast benefits that cognitive behavioural psychotherapy has brought to Many sufferers of Bruce Hutchison Winnipeg certification process called too lengthy red tape stalls people ready to work i have invested Over hours in training for a Trade in i have secured offers for employ ment upon Trade the process of certification at Manitoba apprenticeship and workforce training is As follows you cannot apply for examination until All training hours Are you can expect to wait Over a month for a written you can expect to wait again for a practical you can expect delays for any application you can expect to wait for your cer the government is spending millions to create some customer service orientation and policy review could immediately employ those who would rather be working than Trevor Berry Winnipeg food server should apologize i am writing in response to the letter from have pity on waiters free while most of the letter appears to be addressing a perfectly legitimate i was appalled at the implied threat in the closing i must assume from this statement that customers judged by Watts to be impatient or discourteous Are Likely to have their food tampered with or contaminated in some a state ment such As this in my extremely offensive and completely perhaps this server was simply reacting emotionally to a trying exp if he or she should retract the offending statement if he or she is dangerous and should no longer be allowed to serve food to the in the neither i nor my family shall be Din ing in any downtown hotel restau Cormier Winnipeg slag May be but it makes sense before Wilson 12 next displays his Mexico logical Mettle in he might read a bit further in his his based apparently on a cursory flip through the Oxford that the free press used the word slag incorrectly in a recent headline is simply in my own arbiter of matters linguistic concise 1990 includes slag As a verb meaning to criticize or which certainly fits the headline in admit the verb form is Slang and chiefly but its colourful con notation begs us not to discard it As so much verbal Ted Wakefield Winnipeg arts Centre on Lasalle River i appreciate the supportive com ments that Morley Walker made in his column on 9 about my appoint ment As music director of the nor Bert arts and cultural but i would like to Clear up some of the inaccuracies that appeared in the first of the Norbert arts and cultural Centre snack is indeed located in one of the most Beautiful Sites on the Canadian the for Mer Trappist monastery on the Edge of the Community of but the Centre is perched on the sunny Banks of the Lasalle not the Seine As reported by we want the Public missing any of the innovative programming that snack has to offer because they went to the wrong i How to reach us the free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All letters May be edited for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg r2x letters can be sent to our fax number letters maybe submitted through the internet at . Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone and speaking of although it is True that my family and i were among those whose Homes were ruined during this years devastating our Home is not in South Winnipeg As reported in walkers it is in the Rural municipality of an area that is still severely depressed because it was so badly hit by the Dis i appreciate Walker mentioning that flood evacuees can get free tickets to our opening gala on 19 at 8 but the work that i which is being performed that night and which is dedicated to those whose Homes were lost to the is not called but rather the Ritchot this is quite an important difference because in a the words that the choir sings Are traditional sacred texts and they have a special meaning to anyone who has suffered great whatever their personal beliefs might Glenn Buhr Norbert spend Casino funds in Core some time ago it was announced that when the downtown Casino in the hotel fort Garry closed Down some Mil lion will be spent enlarging the existing casinos the Mcphillips Street Sta Tion and the club has nobody Ever heard of Urban renewal How could our civic and provincial leaders pass up a Golden Opportunity to do something significant to arrest the appalling decline of our City there Are dozens of locations in the downtown area crying for a to say nothing about the amount of activity and new ventures that a downtown Casino would i Yould mention the old free press building As one possibility with three or four Levels of enclosed parking and a multilevel Many cities have citizens commit tees appropriately named the com Mittee to beautify the their members Are seriously interested volunteers with a wide col Lection of skills with Only the Power to but in places like the nations and these committees have done a wonderful Job in putting Forth the wishes of the and the contributions of the committee in making their City a safer and More Beautiful place in which to live Are worthy of the High est Silverman Winnipeg blaming Ottawa not the answer education minister Linda Mclntosh was in a recent free press Arti of the effects of the Federal government on Manitoba is an increase in annual Manitoba govern ment revenues of More than Mil lion from to the present not Money for the province to a Raj x v provincial certification regulations Are time consuming and make eligible people wait to go to vide adequate educational services the effects of the Federal govern ment on provincial revenues Are mul and include not Only transfers but also effects of the Feder Al government to improve the Provin Cial and National As William Neville pointed out in a column in the free press on july there is a real problem in Manitoba and the nations education system when Only 54 per cent of canadians can name the first prime minister of rather than whining like a Linda Mclntosh would do Well to Correct the real Jon Gerrard Carrier sacred Assembly welcomes All As i walked the streets of Winnipeg recently delivering information about the upcoming sacred Assembly 97 to various aboriginal and Faith Organiza i began to sense a greater under standing for the Community that lives in and around the cites from the cab Driver who related information about his recent trip Back to his place of to the tiny Viet namese restaurant with six tables and great food by the the cultural diversity of the City was it is now just Over a year since i began working on organizing sacred Assembly 97 with Elijah chairman and founder of the sacred Assembly the journey has been yet immensely and As i eagerly await the opening Sunrise ceremony on monday in the Sage eng fort Alexander first i do so knowing that this Assembly holds something unique for each individual who will the first held in Hull in december attracted canadians from coast to the prime minis Ter joined the thousands who met to discuss issues of Justice and and while traditional and nontraditional Faith groups actively participated and contributed significantly to the it is Clear that the purpose of this gathering is not to pursue a religious delegates celebrate the spirit of their own humanity and ways to seek and define Concrete ideas that will help maintain peace within our collective communities in the the theme of sacred Assembly 97 is Healing a nation and is hosted by the Sage eng first Home of the grand chief of the Assembly of first Phil it offers an Opportunity for All no aboriginal such As the to experience a Reserve and share in a Dia Logue that will involve teachings from All Corners of the More than anything else it is an event that has something for children Are especially encouraged to visit the Teepee and in that on behalf of All of those who have dedicated time and Effort to make this gathering a significant Opportunity for i extend a Welcome to your Richard Jackman Ottawa doonesbury by Garry Trudeau think it coup ;