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...Many actors are deeply insecure as a result of a troubled childhood, and they often draw on their painful background to intensify their performances. But, says Marion Solomon, a therapist based in Los Angeles, they run the risk of getting trapped in their pain, fearing that if they escape their past they will lose their creative spark. Solomon's clients often say their feelings are too painful to reveal. "I say, 'Feel those feelings, experience them with me, be aware of where you feel them in your body, and we can dive into them and then come out and find...
Racial alienation and ethnic mockery are commonplace in the immigrant-kid experience, and the stories these Asian Americans tell of their childhood are "the same kind of talk about social exclusion that you might have found among Italians and Jews in the 1930s," says Harvard sociologist Mary Waters. But previous generations of immigrants' kids, including those Italians and Jews, lived in neighborhoods with built-in social support structures?people who looked like them, ate like them, prayed like them. They had what Marissa Dagdagan, 28, a daughter of Filipino-born doctors, who grew up in Burr Ridge, Ill, says...
...novel stimulation, but that can be found in ordinary nonstructured, nonmarketed things around the house," says Ross Thompson, a psychologist at University of California at Davis and one of the founders of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, a research organization of scientists and experts on early-childhood development...
...When a 9-month-old raises his arms to be picked up by Daddy, that demonstrates an incredibly complex chain of learning," says Claire Lerner, director of parent education at Zero to Three, a national nonprofit focused on early-childhood development. "First the child has to have an emotional connection to his father. Then he has to form an idea: I want to be picked up. Then he has to know to raise his arms. In that tiny vignette, you can see how complicated a baby's development...
...some patients, while researchers in Irvine, California, have found that some people with Alzheimer's are better able to perform mental tests after listening to Mozart for 10 minutes. But much of the supporting material is anecdotal. French actor Gérard Depardieu says Mozart helped to cure his childhood stutter. Eliad, the painter, received her treatment at an institute founded by a Paris physician named Alfred Tomatis, who pioneered the use of Mozart's music to treat all sorts of childhood disorders as well as adult ailments including depression. Few national authorities officially recognize the treatment, and traditional music...