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Putting on a show: Mickey and Jan Rooney come to WCU’s Fine and Performing Arts Center Sept. 17 for a night of songs, reminiscences and jazz
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Mickey Rooney. Chances are that if you’re into classic Hollywood you’ve seen at least…
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Recommended diversions
Myspace Surely you’ve heard of Myspace. It’s that Internet phenomenon where people can find out a little too much about…
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Death call Everyman
When I registered as a sophomore at Western Carolina University (then, Western Carolina Teachers’ College) in 1954, I heard a…
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Duke convinces Dillsboro to ‘retract’ letter
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Dillsboro Mayor Jean Hartbarger has retracted a letter that could have led to a…
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Certain medicines can be a killer combination
By Dr. Allan Zacher & JC Walkup Editor’s note: A recent overdose by a patient inspired Dr. Allan Zacher of…
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The race is on to Election Day
As the front page of this week’s paper illustrates, it’s election season. Trouble is, it’s just not feeling much like…
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National park and local communities provide a great mix
It’s a chicken or egg argument, but in this case it doesn’t really matter which is right. Either way the…
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Unaffiliated voters are an emerging force
By Kirkwood Callahan • Guest Columnist Political change may arrive with the speed of a tsunami transforming all before it.…
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Close encounters: Wild food shortage and population increase could lead to bear run-ins
Managers at Great Smoky Mountains National Park are bracing for a higher-than-normal level of bear activity this fall and are…
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See no warming, hear no warming, speak no warming
Two ostriches with their heads buried in the sand were having a conversation. The first ostrich said, chuckling, “Man can…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 25: The Final Session
It’s almost time for resolution and termination but first some last minute housekeeping. You should know that I do not…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 24: Who Should see a Shrink?
My buddy, “Ralph,” teaches at a major university. He is about as bright a guy as I’ve ever met and…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 23: Just Babies, Too
The theme throughout this book has been: When a person is emotionally messed up, he or she was made that…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 22: Who Saved Your Butt?
When listening to my patients tell about their less-than-perfect, sometimes horrific, childhoods, I sometimes asked myself, “Who saved their butts?”…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 21: Ways to Screw Up Kids
When children are growing up their parents are omnipotent, so it is safe to say they will have enormous impact…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 20: The Pissed Off
Many of the maladies that affect our emotional systems are fueled by the amount of anger we have storehoused in…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 19: The Safe House
The majority of my patients came to see me because they were depressed. Some were especially down in the dumps…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 18: Crying Men
I was sitting in the rocking chair on the front porch of our house in the North Carolina mountains enjoying…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 17: A Shrink’s Eye View
People go through life with a multitude of eyeballs. Architects see structures noting design and materials; realtors look for FSBO’s…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 16: Sometimes We Make Mistakes
Shrinks, like other professionals, are a kaleidoscope of humanity. They are fat, skinny, tall, short, handsome, beautiful, ugly. Some have…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 15: Use Eagles, If Necessary
Early in our training we were taught that our most important tool to help patients was our intuition, because the…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 14: Herr Professor Doktor Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud, M.D., of Vienna, Austria, is known as The Father of Psychoanalysis. Note, that is the Father, not the…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 13: Dreams
At a social gathering I am introduced to someone. The conversation goes like this: Mutual Friend: “Helen, I’d like you…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 12: Gotcha
Rush hour traffic is heavy in all directions as you come to a red light. You are in the left…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 11: Oh no, not again!
Albert Einstein said that insanity is when someone does the same thing over and over but expects different results each…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 10: Transference
Like so many of the psychic forces that affect our lives, transference is mostly conducted at the unconscious level. (I’ll…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 9: The History of You
Carl Jung was a workaholic, and unlike his wife he needed little sleep. After Mrs. Jung (Emma) went to bed,…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 8: Sex and Sexuality
We shrinks have been accused of starting the sexual revolution, which began in the mid-20th century. This isn’t true. A…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 7: Making a Diagnosis
The emotional system is subject to illness just as are the various parts of the body, but to isolate an…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 6: What It’s Like To Be a Shrink
Many people thing being a shrink is a mysterious, even glamorous, profession. It is, but only at cocktail parties. The…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 5: It Is Not Academic
One of the first things we learned as psychoanalytic candidates was that a person’s I.Q. (basic intelligence) and his or…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 4: My First Patient
When my session on a Friday was over I got up and proceeded to the door of the consultation room.…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 3: Can a Catholic Do It?
Early on psychoanalysis was dubbed “The Jewish Science” because nearly all of the first practitioners were Jews. Although Christianity was…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 2: Why I Became a Psychoanalyst
I had become a dedicated analysand (patient) and continued to see Veryl after my wife and sons moved back to…
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Use Eagles if Necessary, Chapter 1: Colorado
By Jim Joyce We like to think we are in charge of our lives, and sometimes we are, but there…
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Candidates share similar views on immigration
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series on campaign issues in the…
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Family ties, past and present
The Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne. Algonquin Books, 2006. All of us bring ghosts to our table. Whether…
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Local pickers’ uncommon talent
By Chris Cooper It would be pretty tough to find someone around here that hasn’t heard at least a little…
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'An Inconvenient Truth’ Regardless of where you may stand on political issues, one very important truth is making itself abundantly…
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Archeologist to visit proposed quarry site
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer Tuckasegee residents are hoping that the proximity of an ancient Cherokee village to the…
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Flood money decisions important for taxpayers
The media coverage the last three weeks about goings-on inside the Haywood County School System involve very complicated spending matters.…
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Swain sheriff challenger wants a turn at the helm
When word of a shooting in Whittier roused Swain County Sheriff Bob Ogle from his house last Thursday night, he…
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Isn’t anyone going to defend the pope?
By Marshall Frank They’re at it again. Once again, the world is held hostage as Christians pray for their lives…
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The end, perhaps, of the Bush tyranny
In the five years since the terrorists attacked us on 9/11, it has seemed that President Bush could get away…
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Memories of Johnson Catolster and the Cherokee little people
I woke up this morning with the echo of Johnson Catolster’ gentle laughter in my head. I had been dreaming…
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Fine features of a familiar footpath
An ancient Chinese philosopher once admonished his listeners to “Study the familiar!” Ancient Chinese philosophers were always admonishing people to…
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Tourism task force rolls up its sleeves
A task force charged with inspecting the Haywood County Tourism Development Authority is attempting to reshape the county’s approach to…
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Results of zip code study revealed Sept. 28
Results of a much anticipated zip code study conducted in Waynesville will be shared at a public meeting at 7…
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Summer doldrums over
Birders are rejuvenated. Binoculars and spotting scopes have been cleaned and readied. Field guides have usurped The Da Vinci Code’s…
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Help monarchs survive: plant milkweed and toss the pesticides
Monarch butterflies will soon be passing through Western North Carolina on their long migration back to Mexico for the winter.…
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