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...redressing the balance. Abandoning standard research techniques that emphasize impersonal inquiries, they engage women in long conversational dialogues exploring friendships, sexual desires, classroom experiences, racial identity, ideas of justice. What they are discovering is that women's psychological equilibrium depends on human connection. The terror for women is isolation. Psychiatrist Jean Baker Miller of Wellesley College's Stone Center for Developmental Services and Studies and the author of a seminal 1976 book, Toward a New Psychology of Women, says, "Women's sense of self and of worth is grounded in the ability to make and maintain relationships." When...
...unborn children would focus on the needs of expectant mothers rather than punishing bad behavior after the fact. Few drug treatment programs, for instance, accept pregnant addicts. A study of New York City drug-abuse programs found that 87% turned away pregnant crack users. Says Sidney Schnoll, a psychiatrist at the Medical College of Virginia: "We seem more willing to place the kid in a neonatal intensive-care unit for $1,500 or $2,000 a day, rather than put $1,500 into better prenatal care...
...else they can find. Exactly how remains unclear. Self-help books, like Twinkies, give brief highs and do not begin to address the uneven changes in their lives over the past 20 years. "Men aren't any happier in the '90s than they were in the '50s," observes Yale psychiatrist Pruett, "but their inner lives tend to be more complex. They are interested in feeling less isolated. They are stunned to find out how rich human relationships...
...first blind date since her divorce is funny and touching. In the second act is "Honeypot," a hilarious satire of the ridiculous sexual innuendo prevalent in early blues. Harad beautifully belts out lines such as "Put your monkey wrench in my sugar bowl," while Salie, as the disapproving psychiatrist, glowers. Even if one scene fails to entertain, no skit last longer than four or five minutes. The show is nothing if not fast-moving...
...center of a circle of bright, successful friends -- a post- Beatles hipster Algonquin Table that cellularly convenes to muse and amuse. She survives the mottled curse of fame by fostering deep, intimate friendships. Her coterie ranges from her ex's 18-year-old son to a 71-year-old psychiatrist and includes director Penny Marshall, comic philosopher Albert Brooks, actor Richard Dreyfuss, musicians Don Henley and J.D. Souther, and many more...