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...little discipline. They wonder how to raise children who are strong and imaginative and loving. They worry about the possibility that their children will grow wild and distant and angry. Perhaps they fear most that they will get the children they deserve. "Children who go unheeded," warns Harvard psychiatrist Robert Coles, giving voice to a parent's guilty nightmare, "are children who are going to turn on the world that neglected them...
...stags in battle, then sing love songs to each other. A female doctor and her lover, a would-be inventor of nouvelle kosher cuisine, cheerily introduce themselves as "the lesbians from next door." The matron's husband, and surrogate father to her son, is the ex-husband's ex-psychiatrist. The shrink and the boy do a vaudeville-inspired soft-shoe number called Everyone Hates His Parents. The mother probably speaks for a whole generation or two when she describes her occupation in life as "holding to the ground as the ground keeps shifting...
...cast is admirable, notably Faith Prince as the abandoned wife, Michael Rupert as her ex-husband, Stephen Bogardus as the man he left her for, and Price as the psychiatrist. The fulcrum of the ensemble is the child of the broken marriage, on the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, played with just the right blend of anxiety and healing gumption by Danny Gerard, 13. Each actor gets at least one beautiful, revealing song, and all of them make William Finn's music haunting. This individual excellence adds up to general excellence: for craft and for heart, Falsettoland is the first...
...says of Blanchard, who talked her into joining him on the ticket in his tight 1982 race. When rumors arose last spring that Blanchard might choose a new running mate in seeking a third four-year term this year, she snapped, "He should be taken immediately to a psychiatrist." And as Blanchard spread his hopeful view that Griffiths might quietly withdraw, she called a press conference to proclaim that she was "available" to run again. Finally, following his announcement that he did not want her on the ticket, Griffiths declared, "The biggest problem in politics is that you help some...
Despite the new concern, the evidence linking Prozac to suicidal behavior is tenuous and relies mostly on anecdotal histories. The most substantial report appeared last February in the American Journal of Psychiatry. In that study, Dr. Martin Teicher, a research psychiatrist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., documented the cases of six depressed patients who became obsessed with violent suicidal thoughts two to seven weeks after starting treatment with Prozac. Four tried to hurt or kill themselves. The compulsion subsided after the patients went off the drug...