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From the July/August 1994 issue SHE WORE A SEMITRANSPARENT WHITE SHIRT, AND underneath I could detect her fine lace bra. When she leaned toward me to take my... Read more

From the July/August 1994 issue   WHEN I WAS 15 YEARS OLD, MY FRIEND CAROL TALKED ME into going to a dance at our high school. Of course, we had... Read more

Two sisters find different ways to live with the nightmare of sexual abuse. Read more

From the July/August 1994 issue ON A SATURDAY EVENING LATE ONE MAY A FEW YEARS AGO, I stood outside a recently opened restaurant and watched as cars... Read more

From the July/August 1994 issue AS A PSYCHOLOGIST IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, I AM involved in the day-to-day lives of children, not as someone set apart from... Read more

From the July/August 1994 issue IN A WIDELY PUBLICIZED TRIAL last May anxiously followed by therapists around the country, a jury in Napa County... Read more

From the July/August 1994 issue I HAD NEVER HEARD OF KURT COBAIN UNTIL THE OTHER day when he killed himself. Apparently, between suicide attempts, he had been... Read more

From the July/August 1994 issue THE PHRASE, “THE MELTING POT” ORIGINALLY CAME FROM THE title of a popular turn-of-the-century play that ended... Read more

Cutting through the isolation of our self-declared tribes Read more

Of course, not everyone's quarrel with PC is the same. Read more

George Babbitt goes to diversity training Read more

From the May/June 1994 issue ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO, I READ NICK CUMMINGS’S presidential address to the American Psychological Association in which he... Read more

Some African-American couples wrestle with stereotypes to the bitter end. Read more

How the world looks to a 10-year-old with a learning disability Read more

Two squabbling ex-spouses learn to be steadfast coparents. Read more

A new best-seller turns old age into another version of youth. Read more

From the May/June 1994 issue LEARNING DISABILITIES (LD) AND Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are distinct disorders that not only undermine... Read more

Every day, warring and desperate husbands and wives show up in our offices agonizing over divorce. Have we been too blithe in encouraging them to go ahead, too... Read more

Some intriguing findings refute popular myths about marriage. Read more

From the May/June 1994 issue IN THE SPRING OF 1991, MY MOTHER, A MENNONITE AND a nurse-midwife, called me from rural Pennsylvania. “Can you give me... Read more

Life can be sweet just play it by the numbers Read more

THE PAST FEW YEARS HAVE NOT#160; been friendly to psychotherapists.#160; Probably no other contemporary field has suffered so many widely publicized body blows... Read more

From the May/June 1994 issue NOW THAT THE EXPIRATION DATES HAVE PASSED ON OUR familiar fables and fairy tales about gender, it is time to create some new... Read more

Millions of learning-disabled adults rely on intellectual guerrilla tactics to survive. Read more

If the male perspective is lost entirely from our profession, the culture will once again see emotional work as women's work, and I think we all will lose Read more

Challenging cases are the least of many therapists' worries these days. The Golden Age of Private Practice is coming to an end and no one is-quite sure what... Read more

From the March/April 1994 issue We have grown used to having front-row seats during natural and political cataclysms like the Los Angeles earthquake... Read more

Not only does his mother withdraw from him, she may even defer to him at this stage, which can be just as upsetting. Out of fear of emasculating him a boy... Read more

The adaptations necessary to make it in the competitive world of managed care go against many therapists' psychological grain. Read more

Gazzangia, M,S. (1985). The social brain. New York: Basic Books.2. Haley, J. (1986). Uncommon therapy. New York: Norton.3. Kapleau, P. (1989). The three... Read more