The most important part of such a person's treatment would be to understand what would lead him to want to put himself a potentially self-sabotaging situation, he said.

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Research shows that even the most timid, prevention-minded person among us will gladly take a risk, once you help him understand why it would be a greater risk not to.

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Any fair-minded person would understand the distinction, as well as the underlying motive to distort the public record to satisfy a clear editorial preconception.

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