Word: blume
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Smart Women, Blume...
...little bit of diabetes, you can control it." But Vaillant warns, "By the time a clinician identifies a person as an alcoholic, it's almost always too late to return to social drinking." On this issue, Vaillant is supported by the National Council on Alcoholism. Says Dr. Sheila Blume, medical director of the N.C.A.: "The alcohol-dependent or loss-of-control alcoholic is not able to return to drinking...
Other professionals agree with Vaillant's glum assessment. "We don't do anything adequately," admits Dr. Robert Millman, director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Service at Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in New York City. Explains Dr. Blume of the N.C.A., who is a psychiatrist: "Psychiatrists have been trained that alcoholism is a problem which comes from early-childhood experiences, but aren't taught how to treat alcoholics. They go after these 'underlying causes,' treatment doesn't work, the alcoholic gets worse and the psychiatrist decides that the disease is intractable...
...Blume explores both the spirit and the senses. In Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, the twelve-year-old protagonist must choose her religion. Margaret's father is Jewish, her mother Episcopalian. The girl also fears that she will be the last of her clique to menstruate. Prays Margaret: "I'm going to be the only one who doesn't get it. I know it, God. Just like I'm the only one without a religion. Please. . . let me be like everyone else...
...petite, attractive Blume, daughter of a New Jersey dentist, wrote her first children's book 13 years ago, when her two children were young. They are now in college, and the divorced author divides her time between a New York City apartment and a suburban home in Santa Fe, N. Mex. These days she keeps her highly praised ear for dialogue in tune through the 2,000 letters that she receives each month from youthful admirers. Asked one twelve-year-old: "Do you write your books from your mind, or do you use a kit?" Blume hardly needs...