2010年4月23日金曜日

Reading 課題

PSYCHOTERAPY NETWORKER, nov./dec. 2009
-NOW WHAT?
putting therapy skills to work in our post-election world


P19
・Clinician's Digest "Do antidepressants blunt love"
blunt 形 鈍い、尖っていない、まるくなった(⇔Sharp)
   動 を鈍くする(dull)、(⇔Sharpen)

・We've heard for years about the various side effects of SSRI antidepressants, especially that they dampen sexual drive.
dampen=damp 動 
1くじく、鈍らす、そぐ、(down)
2(空調、弱音器で)弱める、消す、
sexual drive 性欲(sexual desire)
drive 名 4.精力、原動(推進)力、(心)動因、衝動、やる気

・As our understanding of neurochemistry has grown, it's become apparent that when one neurotransmitter is affected, it sets off a chain reaction affecting other neurotransmitters and hormones.
neurotransmitters 神経伝達物質
sets off 他(爆薬・花火)に点火する、…を爆発させる、(爆発)を引き起こす

P28 
Beyond the Consulting Room by William Doherty

・AS YOU READ THIS, THE 2008 presidential election is behind us, and we therapists must decide what to do with our civic-minded impluses, which seem to peak and then subside every election cycle.
civic-minded 公共心にかられた
P30 LEFT
・With many of my therapist friends, I've been on a bipolar ride between idealization and cynicism, sometimes reversing affectively within a given administration, and always hoping that the next election cycle will bring the great new leader.
bipolar 〔電気〕2極式の、両極の/(意見・性格等が)両極端な
*M bipolar rideと言ったときにイメージできる乗り物ものが無いな・・・
affectively 感情的な、感動的な、〔心〕(疾患などが)感情にかかわる、情緒の

・This election year at first seemed no differnt:the first choice was between the superhero and a superwonk (both good people; don't get me wrong), followed by a choice between the superhero and a war hero tethered to supermom.
*M 2009大統領選を評した面白い表現だな

superwonk, wonky ぐらぐらする、不安定な
tether (通例be tethered:比喩的に)(…に)縛られる (to)

・When I trained, in the 1970's, I thought that therapy was the number-one untapped source of social improvement.
*M 自分の事としても使える表現だ。
日本でのセラピーは未だuntappedと言えるか


P30 CENTER
・After being disgusted by a televised shouting match on abortion, Laura decided to bring the principles of respectful dialog to the public sphere, beginning with a discussion of abortion and moving on to many of the polarizing issues of our time.

be disgusted by (with,at,that節)(…で)嫌になる、愛想をつかす
《■byは「むかむかさせられる」といった受身的性格が強い場合に。atは「見て、聞いて、知って」。withは「むかついている」という状態をいう場合に用いる》
public sphere 公的領域
polarize 分裂させる、対立させる、〈光〉を偏光させる